Usually means: Be counted out in boxing.
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  1. take the count: Merriam-Webster
  2. take the count: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take the count: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take the count: Vocabulary.com
  5. take the count: Wiktionary
  6. take the count: Dictionary.com
  7. take the count: Rhymezone
  8. take the count: FreeDictionary.org
  9. take the count: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. take the count: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take the count: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. take the count: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (take the count)

verb:  (boxing) To be knocked out.
verb:  (boxing) To take to opportunity to rest briefly after being knocked down but before being counted out by the referee.
verb:  (idiomatic) To lose or fail.

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