scoreboard
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Etymology
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Noun
[edit]scoreboard (plural scoreboards)
- A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
- (cricket) A similar board that also displays each batsman's score, and many statistics and pieces of information.
- (by extension) A listing of various similar entities along with their properties, such as status or rank.
- 2010, Edwin M. Truman, Sovereign Wealth Funds: Threat Or Salvation?, →ISBN, page 8:
- As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.
- 2012, Kyle Rankin, DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices, →ISBN:
- If you are curious about what each of those processes were doing last, just scroll down the page to the table and find the process of the correct number in the scoreboard.
Interjection
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- A taunt which reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.
- 2010 May 16, Mark Hentemann, “The Splendid Source”, in Family Guy, season 8, episode 19:
- Glenn Quagmire: And there's the Vietnam War memorial.
Peter Griffin: Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets.
Vietnamese Civilian: [to a pair of Vietnam veterans] Scoreboard! Scoreboard! Aw, what happened to your friend? Hey, I know that guy. I kill him. He cry like a bitch! Vietnam! Undefeated!
- 2010 June 15, Rob Hedden, The Condemned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 225:
- ."Scoreboard, baby! Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K. C. Mack's mug shot.
- 2010 September 1, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 146:
- When Neuheisel learned of Bellotti's comments, he offered a simple rebuttal: "Scoreboard, baby." Two words to end all arguments, two words to silence any complaint. Scoreboard, baby.
- 2021 October 19, Noe Garcia, Repurposed: How God Turns Your Mess into His Message, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- For the rest of the game, all I would say to him when he taunted me was "scoreboard." Every single word that came out of his mouth was met with my response of "scoreboard."
Derived terms
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[edit]board that displays the score in a game of contest
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