box score

noun

: a printed score of a game (such as baseball) giving the names and positions of the players and a record of the play arranged in tabular form
broadly : total count : summary

Examples of box score in a Sentence

reading the box scores in the newspaper
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Word History

Etymology

from its arrangement in a newspaper box

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of box score was in 1896

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box score

noun
: a printed table giving the score of a game (as baseball), a record of how it was played, and the names and positions of the players
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