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crackup

crackup noun: a crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.

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 crackup

pluralcrackups
alternative formcrack-up

Origin of crackup

Deverbal from crack up.

Questions about crackup

What does crackup mean?
Crackup means a crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
What part of speech is crackup?
Crackup is a noun.
What is the plural of crackup?
The plural of crackup is crackups.

Words near crackup in the dictionary

  1. crackt
  2. cracktastic
  3. cracktro
  4. cracktros
  5. crackuh
  6. crackup
  7. crackups
  8. crackwhore
  9. crackwhores
  10. crackwits
  11. cracky

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