crack up

Meaning

1. 1

   to become ill, either physically or mentally, because of pressure

   You'll crack up if you carry on working like this.

2. 2

   to start laughing a lot

   He walked in and everyone just cracked up.

3. 3

   crack sb upinformal

   to make sb laugh a lot

   Gill's so funny, she just cracks me up.

In the movies · 11

• I mean, audiences crack up over that.Auto Focus2002
• - So is Blair cracking up, or what? - Damn it, MacReady.The Thing1982
• We're cracking up, Tom.The Grapes of Wrath1940
• I'm gonna crack up.Friends: The Reunion2021
• Look like someone had a bad crack upThe Machinist2004
• Donna, you're such a crack-up.Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992
• Watch out, the next one you're gonna crack up.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• You're under pressure, but it's gonna do me no good if you crack up on me.The Aviator2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Auto Focus2002
  • Lenny Pitches Bob a Sitcom
  • Anne Confronts Bob About the Magazines
  • Bob Meets the VTR Salesman
• Friends: The Reunion2021
  • The Cast Returns to the Set
  • The Friends Cast Reunites On Stage
  • The Cast Reunites at the Fountain

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• crack the whip
• a hard nut
• use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
• crack down
• crack on
• at the crack of dawn
• a fair crack of the whip