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crack-up

crack-up is the alternative spelling of crackup.

Meaning of crackup

Noun

crackup (plural crackups)

  1. A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
    • They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and...1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)

Forms of crack-up

pluralcrack-ups

Questions about crack-up

What is crack-up the alternative spelling of?
Crack-up is the alternative spelling of crackup.

Words near crack-up in the dictionary

  1. crack-potty
  2. crack-rope
  3. crack-ropes
  4. crack-shot
  5. crack-the-whip
  6. crack-up
  7. crack-ups
  8. cracka
  9. crackaa
  10. crackability
  11. crackable

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