racking up
Tallying ever higher
Racking up means accumulating or amassing, typically in quantity: She's been racking up frequent flyer miles.
The phrase often appears with debts, victories, points, or charges—things that mount over time.
It can be neutral or carry a sense of excess: He racked up three DUIs in two years.
- amassCollect in quantity
- accrueIncrease by addition
- accumulateGather gradually
- stacking upArranging vertically in layers
- collectBring items together
tallying · adding up · earning · gathering · leveling up · notching · score · piling up · building up · stockpiling · total · accomplishing · points · profiting · compiling · assembling · scoring points · running up the score
accumulation vs. loss
racking uplosing
Failing to win
depleting · shedding · draining · using up · running down
achievement vs. failure
racking upstriking out
Eliminating by crossing through
falling short · blanking · bombing · flopping · tanking