What does chalk up mean?

chalk up means "accumulate as a debt". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chalk up?

Close synonyms include run up, tally. 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 chalk up a common word?

chalk up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

chalk up — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

verb

2 sensesAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
accumulate as a debt
“he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening”
Synonymsrun up
Broaderowe
2.
keep score, as in games
Synonymstally
Broaderrecord

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