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Definition of crack-up in English: crack-upnoun informal 1usually in singular An emotional breakdown. he appeared to be on the verge of a complete crack-up Example sentencesExamples - Even his crack-up comes out pretty buttoned-down.
- Stories of his crack-up and split from his lovely wife became public.
- In the midst of it all was the ‘50s, the decade of her crack-up.
- Mark has had one emotional crack-up and one hospitalisation before the stresses have even begun.
- The truth was that of the three of us, my crack-up was the least enjoyable.
- The directorial debut shows the actress grappling with the aftermath of a crack-up.
- For her, The Bell Jar is not just a novel about teenage crack-ups.
- By the time the reader gets to book four, Donny's been ‘hospitalized for a crack-up.’
- ‘I was desperately, desperately lonely,’ she says, recalling her crack-up when Rowan left home to go to Oxford.
Synonyms breakdown, attack, seizure, prostration, nervous breakdown, mental collapse, nervous collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous tension, crisis, personal crisis, psychological trauma 2usually in singular An act of breaking up or splitting apart. the crack-up of the Soviet Union Example sentencesExamples - After the Communist crack-up, the question is, on what principles is the world going to be organized?
- Well, for the press, it's the latest sign of a conservative crack-up.
- The Baltics’ surge toward independence in 1989 was the first sign of the impending crack-up of the Soviet Union.
- The worst of the economic crack-up has cleared (we hope).
- The later the crack-up comes, the longer the period in which the calculation is misguided by fiduciary media.
- This is supposed to help us savor more deeply the transient joys and triumphs preceding the crack-up.
- Only one very broad check remains: the ultimate threat of hyper-inflation, the crack-up of the currency.
- He refers to this as flight into real goods or the crack-up boom.
- And we are going head - on into an economic, social, and political crack-up.
- The revisionists have been watching carefully the crack-up and want to avoid the alienation of a couple of million members.
- The crack-up didn't happen then and it may not happen now.
- I suppose in due course I'll see him, but I'm really interested in the crack-up of a political system.
- It would lead to the crack-up boom and the breakdown of the whole monetary system.
- Any bump in the road is greeted not just as evidence of the crack-up, but as its beginning.
- Well, we propose a two-step response to the Canadian crack-up.
- Or is this midlife crisis as political crack-up?
Definition of crack-up in US English: crack-up(also crackup) nounˈkrakəpˈkrækəp informal 1A collapse under strain. he appeared to be on the verge of a complete crack-up Example sentencesExamples - By the time the reader gets to book four, Donny's been ‘hospitalized for a crack-up.’
- For her, The Bell Jar is not just a novel about teenage crack-ups.
- The directorial debut shows the actress grappling with the aftermath of a crack-up.
- ‘I was desperately, desperately lonely,’ she says, recalling her crack-up when Rowan left home to go to Oxford.
- Even his crack-up comes out pretty buttoned-down.
- Stories of his crack-up and split from his lovely wife became public.
- Mark has had one emotional crack-up and one hospitalisation before the stresses have even begun.
- The truth was that of the three of us, my crack-up was the least enjoyable.
- In the midst of it all was the ‘50s, the decade of her crack-up.
Synonyms breakdown, attack, seizure, prostration, nervous breakdown, mental collapse, nervous collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous tension, crisis, personal crisis, psychological trauma 2An act of breaking up or splitting apart. the crack-up of a political system Example sentencesExamples - I suppose in due course I'll see him, but I'm really interested in the crack-up of a political system.
- He refers to this as flight into real goods or the crack-up boom.
- The Baltics’ surge toward independence in 1989 was the first sign of the impending crack-up of the Soviet Union.
- This is supposed to help us savor more deeply the transient joys and triumphs preceding the crack-up.
- The worst of the economic crack-up has cleared (we hope).
- It would lead to the crack-up boom and the breakdown of the whole monetary system.
- Well, we propose a two-step response to the Canadian crack-up.
- After the Communist crack-up, the question is, on what principles is the world going to be organized?
- Or is this midlife crisis as political crack-up?
- The revisionists have been watching carefully the crack-up and want to avoid the alienation of a couple of million members.
- Any bump in the road is greeted not just as evidence of the crack-up, but as its beginning.
- The later the crack-up comes, the longer the period in which the calculation is misguided by fiduciary media.
- Well, for the press, it's the latest sign of a conservative crack-up.
- The crack-up didn't happen then and it may not happen now.
- Only one very broad check remains: the ultimate threat of hyper-inflation, the crack-up of the currency.
- And we are going head - on into an economic, social, and political crack-up.
3A car crash. motorists were asked to report minor crack-ups later
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