"crack up" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkɹæk ˈʌp/ Audio: en-au-crack up.ogg [Australia] Forms: more crack up [comparative], most crack up [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} crack up (comparative more crack up, superlative most crack up)
  1. (New Zealand, colloquial) Funny; hilarious Tags: New-Zealand, colloquial
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-adj-ILKDx0lS Categories (other): New Zealand English

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɹæk ˈʌp/ Audio: en-au-crack up.ogg [Australia] Forms: crack up a person cracking up [canonical], cracks up [present, singular, third-person], cracking up [participle, present], cracked up [participle, past], cracked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crack up (third-person singular simple present cracks up, present participle cracking up, simple past and past participle cracked up)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-verb-en:laugh
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to cause to laugh): naurattaa (Finnish), hohotuttaa (Finnish), faire rire (French), zum Lachen bringen (German)
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-verb-h-NvwANK Disambiguation of 'to cause to laugh': 4 92 1 3 0
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive, dated) To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown. Tags: dated, idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to become insane): tulla hulluksi (Finnish), murtua (Finnish), craquer (French), péter un plomb (French), den Verstand verlieren (German), durchdrehen [colloquial] (German), überschnappen [slang] (German)
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-verb-5piAdN5t Disambiguation of 'to become insane': 0 3 93 3 0
  4. (transitive, informal, usually passive, usually negative) To cry up; to extol. Tags: informal, negative, passive, transitive, usually Derived forms: all it's cracked up to be
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-verb-tXclkOTk
  5. To crash an aircraft or automobile.
    Sense id: en-crack_up-en-verb-mr-jl3iB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to laugh): ճաքել (čakʿel) (Armenian), nauraa (Finnish), hohottaa (Finnish), éclater de rire (French), pouffer de rire (French), in Lachen / Gelächter ausbrechen (German), kaputtlachen [reflexive] (German), schlapplachen [reflexive] (German), pękać ze śmiechu (Polish), rachar o bico (Portuguese), gargalhar (Portuguese), ло́паться от сме́ха (lópatʹsja ot sméxa) [imperfective] (Russian), ло́пнуть от сме́ха (lópnutʹ ot sméxa) [perfective] (Russian), garva (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'to laugh': 55 45 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "20 April 2020, “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.”",
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "kaputtlachen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "schlapplachen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "word": "pękać ze śmiechu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "word": "rachar o bico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "word": "gargalhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lópatʹsja ot sméxa",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ло́паться от сме́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lópnutʹ ot sméxa",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ло́пнуть от сме́ха"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to laugh",
      "word": "garva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause to laugh",
      "word": "naurattaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause to laugh",
      "word": "hohotuttaa"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "murtua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "craquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "péter un plomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "word": "den Verstand verlieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "durchdrehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become insane",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "überschnappen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crack up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more crack up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most crack up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crack up (comparative more crack up, superlative most crack up)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That joke was crack up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "23 April 2017, “McDonald's say 'neigh' to horses through the drive-thru”, in Stuff",
          "text": "It was crack up!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "20 April 2020, “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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "5 June 2020, “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)\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Funny; hilarious"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Funny",
          "funny#English"
        ],
        [
          "hilarious",
          "hilarious#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand, colloquial) Funny; hilarious"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹæk ˈʌp/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-crack up.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-au-crack_up.ogg/En-au-crack_up.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-au-crack_up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crack up"
}

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