clock up

verb

1. tr, adverb to record or register

   this car has clocked up 80 000 miles

Idioms and Phrases

Record accumulated hours, miles, or points. For example, It won't be easy to clock up 1,000 flying hours , or Brian clocked up a record number of baskets this year . [Mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

The format could not be simpler: complete as many laps of the 400m track as you can in 24 hours and whoever clocks up the most miles wins.

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For the past two seasons, the Premiership has clocked up an average of seven tries a match, up from five and half five years ago.

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Last week, Will clocked up 31 hours on social-media apps alone.

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She’s also clocked up a great deal of time outside the station, spacewalking.

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When the last of the Belville time sellers, Ruth, died in 1943, she had clocked up more than half a century collecting the time and passing it on.

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