chalk_up has definitions from the field of games
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[ verb ] accumulate as a debt

Synonyms

run_up

Examples

"he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"

Used in print

(The Miami Herald...)

If they can n't chalk_up big business here then let 's stop this noise about how hip we are , and stick_to our community singing .

Related terms

owe

2
[ verb ] (games) keep score, as in games

Synonyms

tally

Used in print

(Marian Nester, "New Methods of Parapsychology"...)

Conversely , if he gives a heavy rating to his own reading , and finds more accurate facts in it than in the others , a point is chalked_up for the intrinsic , objective meaningfulness of_this type of mediumistic material .

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