keep score

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Verb

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keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)

  1. (sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game.
  2. (by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers or other details in various other contexts.
    • 1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Too many of us are attempting to "prove" our manhood by the tired heterosexual method of "keeping score".
    • 1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame[1] (Usenet):
      i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never "kept score". not ever.
    • 2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta[2] (Usenet):
      I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it "degenerated" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.
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