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Crack up

//ˈkɹæk ˈʌp// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Funny; hilarious New-Zealand, colloquial

    "That joke was crack up."

Verb
  1. 1
    To laugh.; To laugh heartily. idiomatic, intransitive

    "It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time."

  2. 2
    laugh unrestrainedly wordnet
  3. 3
    To laugh.; To cause to laugh heartily. idiomatic, transitive

    "The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up."

  4. 4
    rhapsodize about wordnet
  5. 5
    To laugh.; To tease (someone) or tell jokes at the expense of (someone). intransitive, slang

    "He's always cracking up at me about that."

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  1. 6
    suffer a nervous breakdown wordnet
  2. 7
    To break.; To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown. dated, idiomatic, intransitive

    "She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died."

  3. 8
    To break.; To break down or fall apart; to stop functioning; to shatter. idiomatic

    "The university was really cracking up, losing faculty, students and donors, and it seemed like to go under."

  4. 9
    To break.; To separate a group. idiomatic, transitive

    "I have to crack up that little clique."

  5. 10
    To break.; To crash an aircraft or automobile. US

    "From all directions they came to the rescue, one predominant fear gripping their hearts: Fire! Someone had cracked-up. It was for this they sped. The flames that so frequently burst from a crashed airplane became an instantaneous cauldron; many a pilot has lived through the crash to die in the fire that followed."

  6. 11
    To break.; To remove the shell from nuts. transitive

    "We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up."

  7. 12
    To break.; To crack (petroleum). (to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse) transitive

    "The refinery cracks up the heavier oils."

  8. 13
    To affect the image of something.; To praise or applaud (something); to promote a positive view of (something). slang, transitive

    "She wasn't as impressive as Katie cracked her up."

  9. 14
    To affect the image of something.; To insult, demean or harm the image of (something). dated, transitive

    "Those who have been cracking up the agricultural industry will hopefully reconsider their denigration of it."

  10. 15
    To affect the image of something.; To cry up; to extol. informal, transitive

    "This new computer system is not what it was cracked up to be."

  11. 16
    To smoke crack cocaine. intransitive, slang

    "I need to crack up."

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