To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
To extract a bribe.
To earn points in a game.
To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
To win money by gambling.
To obtain something desired.
To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
To acquire or gain.
To obtain a sexual favor.
Acknowledgement of success
A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
The music of a movie or play.
In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
A bribe paid to a police officer.
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
A robbery.
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
Subject.
A weight of twenty pounds.
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
A prostitute's client.
A sexual conquest.
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
Twenty, 20.
The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
To follow something in sequence or time.
To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).
To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.