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View synonyms for crack up

crack up

verb

  1. intr to break into pieces
  2. informal.
    intr to undergo a physical or mental breakdown
  3. informal.
    tr to present or report, esp in glowing terms

    it's not all it's cracked up to be

  4. informal.
    to laugh or cause to laugh uproariously or uncontrollably


noun

  1. informal.
    a physical or mental breakdown

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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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