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What does "ring up" mean?

  1. Record, especially by means of a cash register, as in They had already rung up the sale so I decided not to get the extra items. [c. 1930] Although older cash registers usually signaled a recorded sale with the ringing of a bell, the idiom survives in the age of computers.
  2. Accomplish, achieve, as in They rang up an impressive string of victories.

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