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Meaning of crack up

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

crack up

Pronunciation:

verb

Definitions

  1. To laugh heartily.

    Example: It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time.

  2. To cause to laugh heartily.

    Example: The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.

  3. To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.

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

  4. (usually passive, usually negative) To cry up; to extol.

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

adjective

Definitions

  1. Funny; hilarious

    Example: That joke was crack up.