crack up

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To laugh.; To laugh heartily. idiomatic,intransitive
    — It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time.
  2. To laugh.; To cause to laugh heartily. idiomatic,transitive
    — The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.
  3. To laugh.; To tease (someone) or tell jokes at the expense of (someone). intransitive,slang
    — He's always cracking up at me about that.
  4. To break.; To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown. dated,idiomatic,intransitive
    — She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died.
  5. To break.; To break down or fall apart; to stop functioning; to shatter. idiomatic
    — The university was really cracking up, losing faculty, students and donors, and it seemed like to go under.
  6. To break.; To separate a group. idiomatic,transitive
    — I have to crack up that little clique.
  7. To break.; To crash an aircraft or automobile. US
    — 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.
  8. To break.; To remove the shell from nuts. transitive
    — We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up.
  9. To break.; To crack (petroleum). (to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse) transitive
    — The refinery cracks up the heavier oils.
  10. To affect the image of something.; To praise or applaud (something); to promote a positive view of (something). slang,transitive
    — She wasn't as impressive as Katie cracked her up.
  11. To affect the image of something.; To insult, demean or harm the image of (something). dated,transitive
    — Those who have been cracking up the agricultural industry will hopefully reconsider their denigration of it.
  12. To affect the image of something.; To cry up; to extol. informal,transitive
    — This new computer system is not what it was cracked up to be.
  13. To smoke crack cocaine. intransitive,slang
    — I need to crack up.
形容词 adj.
  1. Funny; hilarious New-Zealand,colloquial
    — That joke was crack up.

词形变化

cracks up present,singular,third-person cracking up participle,present cracked up participle,past cracked up past more crack up comparative most crack up superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
all it's cracked up to be

词源

词源 1
Compare Japanese 笑う (warau, “laugh, smile”), suffixed from Japanese 割る (waru, “crack”).
词源 2
Compare Japanese 笑う (warau, “laugh, smile”), suffixed from Japanese 割る (waru, “crack”).
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