chalk up

Verb

Meaning

keep score, as in games

accumulate as a debt

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

score tally videotape run up matriculate impanel cicatrize hemstitch scoring write-in rack up luck out credited clock up inscroll

Hypernyms

record enter owe put down

Examples

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. Jim Butcher

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!' Randy Jackson

This swaggering behavior has confounded historians, prompting them to wonder if Columbanus was a little off his rocker. But I think we may chalk up this attitude to his Irishness. Thomas Cahill

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. Condoleezza Rice

he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening Source: Internet

How much of this you want to chalk up to environmental issues is debatable but it was definitely getting warmer up there. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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