crack up
/ˈkɹæk ˈʌp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.40 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To break.
Example Sentences
- "It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time."
- "The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up."
- "The joy of “Ticket to Paradise” comes not from its predictable plotting or razor-thin screenplay; it’s from watching them together, from observing how the sparks still fly, and (when the former flames get drunk and let their guards down, or during the end-credit outtakes) watching them crack each other up."
- "He's always cracking up at me about that."
- "She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died."
- "All rather inhuman and undernourished, isn’t it? Well, that, children, is the true sign of cracking up."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
cracks up (present, singular)
cracking up (participle, present)
cracked up (participle, past)
cracked up (past)
more crack up (comparative)
most crack up (superlative)