cracks up
Bursts out laughing
Cracks up has two common meanings.
To crack up is to burst into laughter, often uncontrollably: The comedian had the whole room cracking up.
It also means to suffer a mental or emotional breakdown: The pressure finally made him crack up.
Something that cracks you up makes you laugh hard: That video cracks me up every time.
- breaks downStops functioning properly
- chucklesSoft, subdued laughter
- busts upDestroys or disperses
- flips outLoses control emotionally
- freaks outReacts with extreme alarm
chortles · guffaws · giggles · dies laughing · hysterics · cackles · roars · shatters · belly laughs · can't breathe · snickers · goes to pieces · collapses · in stitches · fractures · ruptures · crumbles · disintegrates
- losing itloses it, snaps, freaks out, flips out, goes crazy
emotional composure
cracks upkeeps it together
Maintains emotional stability
holds it together · copes · endures · perseveres · soldiers on