crack up
Verb
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Verb
crack up
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily.
- It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily.
- The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.
- She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died.
- (transitive, informal, usually passive, usually negative) To cry up; to extol.
- The job just can't be all that she 's cracked it up to be.
- It is not necessarily the great thing that the proponents are cracking it up to be.
- This new computer system is not what it was cracked up to be.
- It not nearly as good as it has been cracked up to be.
- I wonder whether it could be all it is being cracked up to be.
- (of an aircraft or automobile) To crash.
- 1930, Lawrence M. Guyer, "Chuck Luck: The Story of a Flying Dog" (Boys' Life, December 1930)
- 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.
- 1930, Lawrence M. Guyer, "Chuck Luck: The Story of a Flying Dog" (Boys' Life, December 1930)
- German: kaputtlachen (reflexive), schlapplachen (reflexive)
- Portuguese: rachar o bico, gargalhar
- Russian: ло́паться от смех
- German: total zum Lachen bringen
- German: den Verstand verlieren
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