crack up
crack up · more crack up · most crack up
Funny; hilariousFunny; hilarious
/ˈkɹæk ˈʌp/
Meaning
1 senses(New Zealand, colloquial)Funny; hilarious
That joke was crack up.
Examples
43 sentencesYou crack me up, Tom.
ruТы меня смешишь, Том. — Ooneykcall
Tom started to crack up.
Tom and Mary were cracking up.
It ain't all it's cracked up to be.
That hotel isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Origin
Compare Japanese 笑う (warau, “laugh, smile”), suffixed from Japanese 割る (waru, “crack”).Compare Japanese 笑う (warau, “laugh, smile”), suffixed from Japanese 割る (waru, “crack”).
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Forms
more crack up, most crack up| Comparative | more crack up Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most crack up Lesson |
regular
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.