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crack up

verb

Meaning

  • To laugh heartily.

    "It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time."

  • To cause to laugh heartily.

    "The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up."

  • To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.

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

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

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

  • (of an aircraft or automobile) To crash.

adjective

Meaning

  • Funny; hilarious

    "That joke was crack up."