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chalked up

chalked up is the simple past and past participle of chalk up.

Meaning of chalk up

Verb

chalk up (third-person singular simple present chalks up, present participle chalking up, simple past and past participle chalked up)

  1. (transitive) To achieve something.
    • to chalk up a victory
  2. (Australia, archaic, slang) To assign a debt to someone.
    • Give me another drink and chalk it up to John.
  3. (US, slang) To attribute to something, often tangentially.
    • I know we lost, but can we chalk it up as a win?

Questions about chalked up

What is chalked up the simple past and past participle of?
Chalked up is the simple past and past participle of chalk up.

Words near chalked up in the dictionary

  1. chalked down
  2. chalked it down
  3. chalked off
  4. chalked out
  5. chalked something up to experience
  6. chalked up
  7. chalked up to
  8. chalken
  9. chalkened
  10. chalkening
  11. chalkens

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