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Definition of Chalk up
1. Verb. Accumulate as a debt. "He chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"
2. Verb. Keep score, as in games.
Entails: Count, Enumerate, Number, Numerate
Generic synonyms: Enter, Put Down, Record
Derivative terms: Tally
Definition of Chalk up
1. Verb. (transitive) To attribute, credit, or blame. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to achieve something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalk Up
Literary usage of Chalk up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1903)
"... or "Chloritic Marl,' \\\' "Chalk Marl," and the "Grey Chalk " up to the top
of the zone of ..."
2. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1870)
"The above statement of the number of men employed and the rates of progress,
includes those working at the derrick and passing the sand-bags and chalk up to ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"chalk up, to (Australian slang, less frequent in England), to debit to a person.
Undoubtedly the expression arose from the custom of the keeper of an ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"CHAI. к him across the peepers with your cheery [which, translated, means slash
him over the eyes with your dagger). To chalk up, ОГ TO CHALK IT UP, phr. ..."
5. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"chalk up, to credit, make entry in account books of indebtedness ; "I can't pay
you now, but you can CHALK IT UP," ie, charge me with the article in your ..."
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