rack up

Questions about rack up

What does rack up mean?

rack up means "gain points in a game". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rack up?

Close synonyms include score, hit, tally, worst, pip. 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 rack up a common word?

rack up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.