Definition of "notch"

notch

/nɒtʃ/

noun
plural notches
1. A V-shaped cut.
  1. Such a cut, used for keeping a record.
  2. (US slang) Woman.
    Quotations
    These ladies from the west got gameWho got the best, VA, DC, Georgia, New York, Texas, Louisiana, or FloridaThe Middwest got some super notchesYou eva seen Cali's finest, man, who could top us
    2003, “California Girls”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort
2. An indentation.
3. A mountain pass; a defile.
4. (finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
5. (informal) A level or degree.
  Quotations
  a better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.
  2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk
  Your doctor is one of the nosiest asari I've ever met. And that's saying A LOT. She needs to take it down four or five notches, or I won't be long for this show.
  2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Ugh!
6. (electronics) A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house a camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.
verb
third-person singular simple present notches, present participle notching, simple past and past participle notched
1. (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
2. (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
3. (transitive) To join by means of notches.
4. (transitive, informal) To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.
  Quotations
  Jenkins booted a pair of field goals, Hopkins and George Nwokoji each notched a touchdown.
  2010 October 21, “Panthers' football team”, in Portland Leader‎
5. (transitive) To fit (an arrow) to a bow by means of the notch cut at the end of the arrow; to nock.
  Quotations
  Notching an arrow on the string of his tried and unerring bow, he raised his sinewy arms […]
  1885, John Niles Hubbard, An Account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830, page 31
  As Uncle Bunse threw his armful of stuff into the canoe, half a dozen other Indians crept forward, notching their arrows to shoot.
  1913, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper, page 530

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