SS/PS question

[Carol]

zanooda wrote:
<snip>
> 
> I couldn't find "put away" in this sense in dictionaries, so I had to 
> figure it out basing on the final score in that game, LOL. The score 
> was 170:60, which means that Gryffindors scored twice (170-150=20), 
> but only one goal was mentioned, so I assumed the second one was 
> Alicia's penalty. Difficult, very difficult ... :-). <snip>

Carol responds:

I see what you mean. Oddly, Merriam-Webster Online has the following:

"Main Entry:
    put away 
Function:
    transitive verb 
Date:
    14th century

1 a: discard, renounce <to put grief away is disloyal to the memory of
the departed — H. A. Overstreet> b: divorce2: to eat or drink up :
consume3 a: to confine especially in a mental institution b: bury c: kill"

I would have thought that they would at least have "put away" in the
sense of "put where it belongs," as in "put away the clean dishes."
How many parents have said to a child playing with a noisy toy, "Put
that thing away," meaning "Put that toy back in the toybox"? Surely,
it's a common expression, at least in the U.S., and ought to be
included in the dictionary even if "put away," meaning to score a goal
in a sport, is omitted (but since when is sports slang omitted from
descriptive dictionaries?).

Etymology Online doesn't include the term, either. 

I did finally find a website whith what I consider the normal use of
the expression,
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/put+away.html,
which has the following definitions for the phrasal verb "put away":

"Put away - Put something back in the correct place
Example:
He PUT the dictionary BACK on the shelf after he'd finished the crossword.
Notes:
- Separable [optional]
- International English
Put away - Put someone in prison
Example:
The judge PUT him AWAY for ten years for robbery.
Notes:
- Separable [obligatory]
- International English"

If you Google "put away" (with the phrase in quotes), along with
"score" and "goal" (no quotes), you'll find lots of online sports
articles that use in in the sense of scoring a goal, but I don't
suppose they'd be any clearer without a definition than Lee Jordan's
commentary.

Carol, giving up the search after failing to find the phrase at any of
her bookmarked websites