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cacking up

cacking up is the present participle and gerund of cack up.

Meaning of cack up

Verb

cack up (third-person singular simple present cacks up, present participle cacking up, simple past and past participle cacked up)

  1. (transitive) To vomit or hack up.
    • My cat is always cacking up hairballs.
  2. (slang, transitive) To mess up; to get seriously wrong.
    • OmniCorp has really cacked up this problem.
  3. (intransitive, filter, or pipe) To become plugged up.
    • The pipe has cacked up again, so I'm calling a plumber.

Questions about cacking up

What is cacking up the present participle and gerund of?
Cacking up is the present participle and gerund of cack up.

Words near cacking up in the dictionary

  1. cackhandedness
  2. cackier
  3. cackiest
  4. cacking
  5. cacking on
  6. cacking up
  7. cackle
  8. cackle bladder
  9. cackle bladders
  10. cackle fruit
  11. cackle-bladder

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