rack up

verb

racked up; racking up; racks up

transitive verb

: achieve, gain
racked up their 10th victory

Examples of rack up in a Sentence

having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal racked up their second consecutive Super Bowl victory
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Born June 16, 1953 in Sumatra, Indonesia, Valerie Mahaffey racked up 90 credits as a character actress, according to her IMDb page. Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025 Fearless and Speak Now accumulated 2.7 billion and 2.1 billion streams, respectively; Red has racked up 7.5 billion streams; and 1989 has led all four albums with an astonishing 8.2 billion streams. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2025 Stephen King's latest jab at President Donald Trump has racked up more than 1.5 million views on social media in just a day. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025 Released on May 8, which was also the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Ye’s Hitler video has racked up an eye-popping 10 million views on X as of this writing. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for rack up

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rack up was in 1949

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“Rack up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rack%20up. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

Kids Definition

rack up

verb
: score entry 2 sense 4a
racked 30 points up in the first half
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