clock up

phrasal 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

Reid's clip has clocked up more than 4.6 million views and over 689,000 comments. —David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025

Quansah surpassed all expectations, clocking up 33 appearances (27 starts) across that 2023-24 campaign. —James Pearce, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025

The footage has been viewed over 580,000 times and clocked up over 100 comments. —Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025

Safety first By six months, most babies are clocking up to 16 hours of sleep a day. —Briana Feigon, Architectural Digest, 28 Feb. 2025

Regis' clip has clocked up over 640,000 views and over 5,400 comments, igniting intense conversations in the comments section. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025

Doak, who made his Scotland debut against Poland last September, has clocked up 1,787 minutes of senior football in England’s second tier. —James Pearce, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical clock up one second to 89 seconds before midnight, the theoretical doomsday mark. —Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025

Season 2 of Paatal Lok could well be among 2025’s first breakout hits, with views clocking up in its home country and top-10 lists being cracked in others. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025

Rhymes for clock up

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