chalk up

verb

1. to score or register (something)

   we chalked up 100 in the game

2. to credit (money) to an account etc (esp in the phrase chalk it up )

Idioms and Phrases

Score or earn, as in She chalked up enough points to be seeded first in the tournament . This term alludes to recording accounts (and later, scores) in chalk on a slate. [c. 1700]

Credit or ascribe, as They chalked their success up to experience . [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

Mark Miller of Benchmark Equity Research also chalked up the results to robust capital spending on AI and data centers among technology companies.

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Are you in “Group 7”? The fact that millions want to be could be chalked up to an L.A. singer who was determined to use TikTok to get her music before the public.

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Mr. Rowlands chalks up the older face to a type of substitution.

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Delgado chalks up his health to the fact that he’s been a pescatarian for 45 years, with a penchant for salmon, avocados, quinoa and garbanzo beans, and that he prioritizes hydration.

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Instead, the Chargers lost after the ball bounced off Johnston’s hands in what he chalked up to a “lack of concentration.”

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