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crack up
verb
- intr to break into pieces
- informal.intr to undergo a physical or mental breakdown
- informal.tr to present or report, esp in glowing terms
it's not all it's cracked up to be
- informal.to laugh or cause to laugh uproariously or uncontrollably
noun
- informal.a physical or mental breakdown
Example Sentences
[Both guys crack up] “Is there an Intellegentsia Coffee in Puerto Rico?”
I would crack up laughing and say, “Are you really shooting this?”
Back then, things seemed simpler: the continent was due for imminent crack-up.
From there we see Biden start to crack up—perhaps caught off guard by the unexpected compliment.
After hours of this—literally—men begin to crack up, and a class of 100 can shrink by 10 percent in a few minutes.
Some brave soul had hauled me out of that crack-up before the fuel tank went up in the fire.
Nor was there a trace anywhere in a vast circle—almost a half mile they searched—from the crack-up.
The puzzle began to go around and around in my head again, all the way back to that gleaming road and the crack-up.
Now, it is only ignorance which causes ladies to believe that there is any necessity to 'crack up' the character of a servant.
They were being drawn earthward, and all the pilot could do only delayed the inevitable crack-up.
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