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Definition: Crack-up |
Crack-upNoun1. A mental or physical breakdown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Crack-upSynonym: breakdown (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crack-Up (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | In Kossol Passage, Palau, on 8 October 1944, after having completed the rescue of eight of eleven crewmen of a PBM patrol seaplane that had suffered a forced landing and crack-up at sea. Photographed by CPhoM D.S. Fruchey, of USS Chandeleur (AV-10). Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Crack-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crack-up" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crackup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-k-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: crack, cruck, pucka. | |
-3 letters: cark, carp, crap, pack, park, prau, puck, rack, ruck. | |
-4 letters: arc, ark, auk, cap, car, cup, cur, pac, par, pur, rap. | |
-5 letters: ar, ka, pa, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-k-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: crackups. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 61 63 6B 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r a c k - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0061 0063 006B 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3784676977158782 |
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