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chalked up to

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

Meaning of chalk up to

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To attribute or account for something; to ascribe.
    • Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.

Questions about chalked up to

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

Words near chalked up to in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chalked up to (page history and authors); chalk up to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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