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box score

noun

, Sports.
  1. a record of the play of a game, especially a baseball or basketball game, in which, on separate sides of the record, the players on each team are listed in a column by name and position, with additional rows of columns, each headed by the abbreviation of the type of information to be given for each player.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of box score1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

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