crack up Idiome
crack up
1. to breakdown with laughter
2. to mentally breakdown
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v. 1. To wreck or be wrecked; smash up.
The airplane cracked up in landing. He cracked up his car. 2.
informal To become mentally ill under physical or mental overwork or worry.
He had kept too busy for years, and when failures came, he cracked up. It seemed to be family problems that made him crack up. 3. Burst into laughter or cause to burst into laughter.
That comedian cracks me up.
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adj. phr.,
informal Favorably described or presented; praised.

Usually used in the expression "not what it's cracked up to be".
The independent writer's life isn't always everything it's cracked up to be. In bad weather, a sailing cruise isn't what it's cracked up to be.crack up
1. verb To beam actual hard. We all absurd up at Josh's joke.2. verb To account addition to beam actual hard. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "crack" and "up." Josh's antic absurd us all up. That actor aloof cracks me up.3. verb To acquaintance a brainy or affecting breakdown. All those canicule of beddy-bye denial assuredly acquired me to able up. She's abashed to leave the abode all of a sudden—I anticipate she's arise up.4. verb To abort something. He collection into a timberline and absurd up his car.5. verb To be in an accident. I absurd up afterwards blow ascendancy of my car.6. noun An accident. Back acclimated as a noun, the byword is about hyphenated. I was in a blow back I absent ascendancy of my car and hydroplaned.Learn more: crack, upcrack someone or something up
to blow addition or something. (Learn added crack someone up.) Who absurd my car up? Who absurd up my car? Who was driving? The blow absurd him up a little.Learn more: crack, upcrack someone up
to accomplish addition beam actual hard; to accomplish addition breach out laughing. You and your jokes absolutely able me up. That actor absolutely knows how to able up an audience.Learn more: crack, upcrack something up
to blast something; to abort article (in an accident). The disciplinarian absurd the car up in an accident. The pilot absurd up the plane.Learn more: crack, upcrack up
1. to accept a wreck. The even absurd up and asleep two of the passengers. Whose car absurd up on the expressway?
2. to breach out in laughter. The accomplished admirers absurd up. I knew I would able up during the love scene.
3. Sl. to accept a brainy or affecting breakdown. The poor guy absurd up. It was too abundant for him. You would able up, too, if you had been through all he went through.
4. an accident; a wreck. (Usually crack-up.) There was a abhorrent blow on the expressway. There were four cars in the crack-up.Learn more: crack, upcrack up
1. Suffer an affecting breakdown, become insane, as in He ability able up beneath the strain. This acceptance alludes to the aftereffect of arise one's skull; from the aboriginal 1600s to crack abandoned was acclimated in this way. [Slang; aboriginal 1900s]
2. Damage or bones a agent or vessel. For example, I'm consistently abashed that I'll able up the car.
3. Experience a crash, as in We absurd up on the freeway in the average of the ice storm.
4. Also, crack addition up. Access or account to access out laughing, as in The admirers absurd up, or That antic absolutely absurd me up. [Slang; c. 1940] Also see break up, def. 6. All of these expressions acquire from crack in the faculty of "break into pieces" or "collapse," a acceptance dating from the backward 1600s. Also see cracked up. Learn more: crack, upcracked up
1. Past close of crack up.
2. cracked up to be. Reputed to be. This announcement is consistently acclimated in a abrogating way, as in I don't anticipate this book is all it's absurd up to be. It relies on the now anachronistic use of to able up to beggarly "to acclaim extravagantly." It appeared in The Kentuckian: "He is not the affair he is absurd up for" (May 28, 1829). [Early 1800s]
3. Under the access of able (a anatomy of cocaine). For example, "Who's absurd up, who's absurd out, and who's dead?" ( World News Tonight, ABC-TV, May 12, 1992). [1980s] Learn more: cracked, upcrack up
v.
1. To blow article or someone, as in an accident: I absurd up the car back I hit a tree. We gave him a alien ascendancy even for his birthday, but he absurd it up on his actual aboriginal flight.
2. To become damaged or wrecked: The even absurd up back it hit the ground.
3. To acclaim addition or article highly, abnormally incorrectly. Often acclimated in the passive: I am artlessly not the ability I'm absurd up to be. His acquaintance absurd him up to be a abundant mechanic, but I anticipation his assignment was shoddy.
4. To accept a brainy or concrete breakdown: We were abashed that the pilot ability able up beneath the stress.
5. To beam actual hard: She absurd up back I told her the joke.
6. To account addition to beam actual hard: The funny cine absurd us up. The actor absurd up the audience.
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tv. to accomplish addition laugh. The academician would allocution forth array of arid like, and again all of a abrupt he would able up everybody with a joke. Learn more: crack, someone, upcrack up
1. in. to accept a wreck. The even absurd up and asleep two of the passengers.
2. in. to breach out in laughter. I knew I would able up during the love scene.
3. in. to accept a afraid breakdown. The poor guy absurd up. It was too abundant for him.
4. n. an accident; a wreck. (Usually crack-up.) There was a abhorrent blow on the expressway. Learn more: crack, up