take the count

1. 1.

   be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten

   Synonymsremain down

   Broaderlose

   boxing

Questions about take the count

What does take the count mean?

take the count means "be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten".

What is another word for take the count?

Close synonyms include remain down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take the count a common word?

take the count is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.