Usually means: Laugh uncontrollably or go insane.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word crack up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. crack-up, crack up: Merriam-Webster
  2. crack-up, crack up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crack-up, crack-up, crack up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. crack-up, crack up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Crack-Up, crack-up: Wordnik
  6. crack (sb) up, crack up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. crack up: Wiktionary
  8. crack-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. crack-up, crack up: Dictionary.com
  10. Crack-Up (album), The Crack-Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. crack-up, crack up: Rhymezone
  12. crack-up, crack up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. crack-up, crack up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. crack-up, crack up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. crack up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crack-up, crack up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crack up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crack up, crack up, crack up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crack up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. crack up: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crack_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (crack up)

verb:  To laugh.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To tease (someone) or tell jokes at the expense of (someone).
verb:  To break.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive, dated in US) To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.
verb:  (idiomatic) To break down or fall apart; to stop functioning; to shatter.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To separate a group.
verb:  (US) To crash an aircraft or automobile.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the shell from nuts.
verb:  (transitive) To crack (petroleum). (to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse)
verb:  To affect the image of something.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To praise or applaud (something); to promote a positive view of (something).
verb:  (dated, transitive) To insult, demean or harm the image of (something).
verb:  (transitive, informal, usually passive, usually negative) To cry up; to extol.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To smoke crack cocaine.
adjective:  (New Zealand, colloquial) Funny; hilarious

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