- crack-up
- noun
Date: circa 1926
1. crash, wreck <an automobile crack-up> 2. a. a mental collapse ; nervous breakdown <his wife's death brought on his crack-up> b. collapse, breakdown
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
crack-up
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