Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a mental or physical breakdown [syn: breakdown]
Wikipedia
Crack-Up is a 1946 film noir directed by Irving Reis, remembered for directing many "Falcon" movies of the early 1940s including The Falcon Takes Over. The drama is based on "Madman's Holiday", a short-story written by mystery writer Fredric Brown. The drama features Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, and others.
Crack-Up can refer to:
- Crack-Up (1936 film), an American movie
- Crack-Up (1946 film), an American movie
- The Crack-Up, a 1945 collection of essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crack-Up is a 1936 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair. Peter Lorre plays a harmless, half-addled aircraft enthusiast who is actually a ruthless spy desperate to get his hands on the blueprints for an experimental aircraft. He faces off against Ace Martin, played by Brian Donlevy, the pilot of the aircraft, whose motives are spurred by feeling cheated by his own company. The supporting cast includes Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan and Thomas Beck.
Usage examples of "crack-up".
Crack-up Swelled by emergifig brood and new arrivals, the hive had become too crowded, even for bees, and now in the superorganism, the colony, a decision was made and transmitted by mass communication.
Denying that dream meant that Ziplock was teetering on the brink of crack-up.
They talked about their careers, their crack-ups, their prongs, their shrinks, their dreams.
It meant that instead of flying a tough route via South America and Africa with a lot of crack-ups, or coming crated on convoy vessels which the U-boats could sink, the aircraft would now funnel in directly over a safe straight route.