to crack up
18
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /kræk ʌp/
- Informal
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partirse de risa
- My wife and I were cracking up about this because five years ago, we would never watch a movie with subtitles.
- crack up laughing
- crack up with laughter
- start cracking up
She has a car, she told me, and we both cracked up, the thought of it wild.
- She has a car, she told me, and we both cracked up, the thought of it wild.
- Still convinced when she repeats words slowly and then cracks up.
- I listened to my own podcast and they fell to the floor, started just cracking up laughing.
- I sat there howling and cracking up and crying almost, you know, because I couldn't see it.
- But my friend Terry McGinnis, who and he would, he would crack up and he would look at me like, yeah, you'll never play Spider Man, Andy.
- She'd be nursing a black eye and I would Just Dance in front of her and she'd just start cracking up.
- My wife and I were cracking up about this because five years ago, we would never watch a movie with subtitles.
- Like some of the videos would make me crack up because I'm like go muchingados.
- I was fucking cracking up, cracking up, just reliving the entire thing again.
- Who and who's the one who made you crack up the most?
- And when I told my friend Susan that I was going to read this, she started cracking up because she knows that I don't like smut and or dirty talk.
- I think about that sometimes I just find myself cracking up.
Examples
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Oh, Marie-- she really cracks me up.
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This is the sort of thing that cracks my family up.
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But it was fun just watching the man crack up in the middle of the story.
Blog text (34) -
I was cracking up at everything.
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This guy cracks me up.
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Well, that was enough to get the whole audience cracking up at his reaction!
Blog text (7) -
Please do, so I can really start cracking up at what a clown you are.
Blog text (7) -
I can't even look at his face without cracking up; he is a brilliant comedian.
Blog text (24) -
You crack me up.
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When he told the joke, everyone started to crack up laughing uncontrollably.
Synonyms
18
6.0
To make a loud high sound like a hen or laugh in a loud harsh way
9
3.0
Start laughing very hard and cannot stop
8
2.4
To suddenly start laughing loudly and not be able to stop
3
5.1
To make loud, long sounds because something is very funny
1
3.5
To make loud sounds you cannot stop because something is very funny
1
9.7
To laugh very hard at something funny online
1
5.6
To laugh very hard
1
4.0
To laugh in a way you cannot stop because you find something very funny or feel embarrassed
Feel so amused that you fall over and move on the floor
Laugh so hard that your body shakes
To laugh so hard you almost choke
To laugh loudly and without control
Antonyms
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
crack + up
The meaning 'to suffer a mental or emotional breakdown' is directly built from 'crack' (to give way emotionally) with the particle 'up' providing a predictable resultative/completive nuance. This verb+particle pattern is common and the core meaning is present in the verb, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Crack up comes from the image of a person laughing so hard they seem to crack or burst with sound. The verb crack means 'to break' and with up it shows a sudden move into laughter, so the phrase means 'to laugh loudly'.