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vb. (present participle of chalk up English)
Usage examples of "chalking up".
Chaim Cohen climbed up onto the disselboom of the nearest wagon to the arena and began chalking up the draw on a greenruled board, and the bookmakers craned for the matchings and then began calling their odds for each bout.
The shop was closed, for the day's racing was over, but a dozen clerks were still busy, some of them chalking up the Tote prices and other details on huge boards.
Who would have blamed them for simply chalking up any ideas of peace to a bad dream?
She watched them for a while, and then she went across the porch into the next classroom, where Miss Martinez was chalking up the names of trees in preparation for her next lesson.
I imagined them chalking up the fight to kids or mortgages or cheating.