rack up

Verb

Meaning

gain points in a game

defeat thoroughly

supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals)

place in a rack

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pip hit score worst whip tally mop up mass make record get increase win reach gain
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Antonyms

forfeit disappoint abandon give out pass out dish out
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Hypernyms

place set position put win gain

Hyponyms

eagle homer have convert make get

Examples

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster? Julie Burchill

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. Marc Andreessen

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back. André Aciman

Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank. Jonathan Raymond

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in. Tom Hodgkinson

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card. T. Harv Eker

Close letter words and terms

rack railway rack rate rack time rack your brains rack-and-pinion railway rack-mountable