"cack up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-cack up.ogg [Australia] Forms: cacks up [present, singular, third-person], cacking up [participle, present], cacked up [participle, past], cacked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cack up (third-person singular simple present cacks up, present participle cacking up, simple past and past participle cacked up)
  1. To vomit or hack up.
    Sense id: en-cack_up-en-verb-Ea65AnFN
  2. (slang) To mess up; to get seriously wrong. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cack_up-en-verb-DAw3yEYL
  3. (of a plug, filter or pipe) To become plugged up.
    Sense id: en-cack_up-en-verb-X2ujX~y4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 15 75 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 18 24 59

Inflected forms

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