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"ref": "2022 October 21, Jason Bailey, “How George Clooney and Julia Roberts Quietly Became the Tracy-Hepburn of Our Time”, in The New York Times:",
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"text": "The university was really cracking up, losing faculty, students and donors, and it seemed like to go under."
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"text": "My motorcycle cracked up before I arrived."
}
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"text": "I have to crack up that little clique."
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"ref": "1930 December, Lawrence M. Guyer, “Chuck Luck: The Story of a Flying Dog”, in Boys' Life:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1983, John Thorn, David Reuther, The Armchair Aviator, page 101:",
"text": "When I reported this to Burwell by telephone, he called me a Chinese ace — in those days Chinese aces were pilots who cracked up their own airplanes […]",
"type": "quote"
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"text": "We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up."
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"text": "The refinery cracks up the heavier oils."
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"text": "She wasn't as impressive as Katie cracked her up."
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"text": "Those who have been cracking up the agricultural industry will hopefully reconsider their denigration of it."
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"text": "This new computer system is not what it was cracked up to be.",
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"ref": "1939 June, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Coming Up for Air, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, published 1948 (April 1959 printing), →OCLC, part II, page 132:",
"text": "No use, with a bloke like this, cracking up your own merits. Stick to the truth.",
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"lang": "Armenian",
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"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "ճաքել"
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"sense": "to laugh",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to laugh",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "éclater de rire"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "pouffer de rire"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "in Lachen / Gelächter ausbrechen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to laugh",
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"lang": "German",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "pękać ze śmiechu"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "rachar o bico"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "gargalhar"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to laugh",
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"sense": "to laugh",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to laugh",
"word": "garva"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to laugh",
"word": "naurattaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to laugh",
"word": "hohotuttaa"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to laugh",
"word": "faire rire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to laugh",
"word": "zum Lachen bringen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become insane",
"word": "tulla hulluksi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become insane",
"word": "murtua"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to become insane",
"word": "craquer"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to become insane",
"word": "péter un plomb"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to become insane",
"word": "den Verstand verlieren"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become insane",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"text": "That joke was crack up.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "2017 April 23, “McDonald's say 'neigh' to horses through the drive-thru”, in Stuff:",
"text": "\"It was crack up!\"",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2020 April 20, “The curious case of a fictional spa in Westport”, in Newsroom:",
"text": "In town people would stop and say to me, “Hey Becky, that cat story was crack up.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 5, “Police looking into footage of woman twerking on Auckland Harbour Bridge”, in Newshub:",
"text": "One person said it was \"crack up\", while the woman who uploaded it said \"I'm a do it again (sic)\".",
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