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Meanings of crack up in English

Catalan
riure
Spanish
morirse de risa

Suffer a nervous breakdown.

riure
Synonyms
Examples for "crack"
Examples for "crack"
1
We're tracking down evidence, and we hope to crack the case today.
Goodbye dolly
2
It's a problem TV has not really been able to crack yet.
The Guardian
3
Ultimately, Coulom says, this kind of hybrid approach will crack the problem.
Wired
4
However, a longer reaction time resulted in the crack of 2-D structure.
Pubmed
5
During the financial crisis, policymakers pledged to crack down on the industry.
Reuters
1
Last year, auto supporters said an industry collapse would devastate the economy.
Reuters
2
Officials said the second building was not yet at risk of collapse.
Radio NZ
3
There is great concern across Europe about the collapse of bee populations.
BBC
4
Aid groups say health services across the country are close to collapse.
Reuters
5
Progressives anticipated direct government action to address the consequences of economic collapse.
The Guardian
1
Then he crocked up, nerves and that sort of thing.
Lady Bountiful
2
Of course, after this (in the words of my young friends) I crocked up.
The Red Planet
3
He is a good deal crocked up.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
4
And as I'm still rather crocked up, and he knew it, there must have seemed precious little risk about it.
The Loudwater Mystery
5
Higginson was coming with me, but as you know he's crocked up and won't be out of bed for a month.
The Pit Prop Syndicate
1
Financial abuse often made it very hard to break up a relationship.
Radio NZ
2
I just need to understand how fast it's going to break up.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
3
We could not work with people committed to break up the UK.
The Guardian
4
It doesn't make sense for the company to break up, he said.
Reuters
5
I almost said something, because I wanted to break up that connection.
Blockade billy
Usage of crack up in English
1
So now we crack up along the Highway near the Harrison place.
Highways in Hiding
2
If we get him shipside, will she hold on or crack up?
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
3
Madison nearly choked on her drink, which made them both crack up.
Starstruck
4
The kind of life you've been leading would crack up any constitution.
Swirling Waters
5
Wait until we start seeing some of that crack up here.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
6
We crack up at each other's jokes and ask each other for advice.
The Guardian
7
The young uns ull crack up most anything as comes along.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
8
Publicist, photographer, Seeds piano player Roland and I crack up at the thought.
The Guardian
9
You have to crack up the room once in a while.
Reuters
10
Haymitch and Peeta crack up and Prim allows herself a smile.
Catching Fire
11
You ought to have heard Jim Plaskett crack up Garth's pluck-andJim knows!
Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
12
A generation later, talk of my own mules used to crack up the office.
The Irish Times
13
A fast spread means cracks form throughout the shelf and make it crack up.
The Irish Times
14
We saw some of our people crack up who could no longer take it.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
15
However, they're not always all they crack up to be.
Wired
16
Third pitch follows the diagonal crack up and left to tufa columns and stalactites.
Climbing Magazine
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