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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scorer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ Next highest scorer to Forrester and Whelan at youth level.
▪ White says those answered correctly by low-scoring students but missed by the high scorers are eliminated.
▪ That was the only hiccup in Llanelli's 10-try victory, although they were not the highest scorers of the day.
▪ Gary Havelock, their newly-appointed captain, was the second highest scorer with 14.
▪ I am very proud that I was the highest scorer for Darlington for many years.
▪ A one-time county cricketer, he still plays for Darlington with whom he has a reputation as a high scorer.
leading
▪ The Boro's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford.
▪ The 24-year-old, leading scorer for the past four seasons, was unsettled by a £3.5 million offer from Manchester United.
▪ Town's fans are angry at losing the club's leading scorer.
▪ Capped 12 times by his country, the 24-year-old is a leading scorer for his club Rosenberg with 20 goals this season.
▪ The Seasiders, boosted by the inclusion of leading scorer Tommy Mooney were always on top and showed sharp finishing.
▪ United's leading scorer was in rampant mood and was twice kept out by superb saves from Gould.
▪ That takes Shearer's tally to 10 goals in 10 games and he is also the Premier League's leading scorer.
▪ Marwood, the League's leading scorer with 224 points, added both goals to make it 18-12.
prolific
▪ Not surprisingly, Sheffield Wednesday are reluctant even to consider releasing such a prolific scorer.
▪ Kidderminster Harriers want at least £40,000 for Kim Casey, their prolific scorer, who is transfer-listed.
top
▪ But top scorer Craig Maskell saw his weak spot-kick easily saved by Gerry Peyton.
▪ Roy has been top scorer in most of the Ducks' games.
▪ Town should be unchanged, but top scorer, Craig Maskell might get a look in.
▪ Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell.
▪ One of the top scorers, the Maharaja of Sarguja claimed 1,150 tigers.
▪ The third goal came from top scorer, Owen Pickard. 3-1.
▪ If Hereford have a matchwinner, it's top scorer, Simon Brain, 10 goals this season.
▪ Allan Lamb had probably seen the same selector: he hit sixty for Northants, their top scorer.
■ NOUN
goal
▪ And the only way a goal scorer can regain his touch is to keep playing.
▪ Q: What makes you such a great goal scorer?
▪ Saturday, the easy part was being an Oilers goal scorer.
■ VERB
lead
▪ We want some one the public is going to love or hate, not just the leading scorer.
▪ Last year, he was the leading scorer and leading rebounder.
▪ Robinson led all scorers with 28 points after sitting down with 2: 59 left.
▪ Donyell Marshall led all scorers with 20 points on 8-for-20 shooting.
▪ Jaha Wilson, the leading scorer against Oregon State, missed eight of his first nine shots.
▪ The Knights' two leading scorers combined for nine points.
▪ Their leading scorer, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, suffered a bruised right quadriceps against Seattle on Wednesday and missed the game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gavin Hastings topped Phil Bennett's overall for a Lions' scorer with his 18 points and equalled another record.
▪ Jaha Wilson, the leading scorer against Oregon State, missed eight of his first nine shots.
▪ Leading scorers - Arsenal: Wright 25.
▪ The Boro's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford.
▪ The shot has helped Vaught become a remarkably reliable scorer, but it is not the only aspect of his game.
▪ Top scorer, Craig Maskell has lost his scoring touch at the moment.
▪ White says those answered correctly by low-scoring students but missed by the high scorers are eliminated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scorer

Scorer \Scor"er\, n. One who, or that which, scores.

Wiktionary
scorer

n. One who scores.

WordNet
scorer
  1. n. a player who makes a score in a game or contest

  2. a logger who marks trees to be felled

  3. an official who records the score during the progress of a game [syn: scorekeeper]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "scorer".

American to shoot down more Germans than our top scorer of World War One.

In addition to being sophomore class president, he was a peer counselor, high scorer of the varsity basketball team the past winter, and now he was the wunderkind of the baseball team.

By the time he was a sophomore in high school, Billy was the quarterback on the football team and the high scorer on the basketball team.

Zach was their lead scorer, but he had to sit out the game that night.

He had been the highest scorer of all time on the Academy reconnect simulator and had successfully accomplished the maneuver on both the Yorktown and the Hood.

Luke was working well in class and was high scorer on his baseball team.

It soared away in a splendid parabola, struck the pavilion roof with a noise like the crack of doom, rattled down the galvanized iron roofing, bounced into the enclosure where the scorers were sitting and broke a bottle of lemonade.

The man told him there were officer-training programs available to the highest scorers on the Armed Services Aptitude Test.

I have given them were those whose averages were turned in by the Official Scorer of the league at the end of the season, they having all, with one exception, played in twenty-five games, that exception being Fulmer, who participated in but sixteen.

It soared away in a splendid parabola, struck the pavilion roof with a noise like the crack of doom, rattled down the galvanized iron roofing, bounced into the enclosure where the scorers were sitting and broke a bottle of lemonade.

The runners are handing in the scorecards, and the official scorer is adding everything up.