clock up

verb

clocked up; clocking up; clocks up

chiefly British

: to gain or reach (a particular number or amount)

Our company clocked up a record number of sales this year.

Examples of clock up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Marketing teams should no longer focus on simply building awareness clocking up every mention as a win. — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Incidentally, their highest tally of 27 was clocked up six days earlier, in the goalless draw with Cape Verde — albeit with much less attacking potency. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Hormann’s post went viral on Threads, clocking up over 16,000 likes. — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

In this delightfully science-minded historical fiction novel, one of the main characters runs away from her family to do astronomy while the other clocks up multiple major scientific expeditions under her belt. — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for clock up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup