clock up

present singular third person clocks up · participle present clocking up · participle past clocked up · past clocked up

1. figurativelytransitiveTo accumulate (an amount of time or experience).

   To become a pilot, you must clock up at least 1,000 hours flying time.

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   Only Gresley's 'A3s' and the InterCity 125s, both of which clocked up over 40 years of ECML service, can boast longer careers. But none were pushed as hard, for as long, as the Class 91s and Mk 4s have been over the past three decades.

   2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 38

2. UKfigurativelytransitiveTo cover (a distance) over time.

   My car has clocked up over 5,000 miles in the last month