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Definition of Crock up
1. Verb. Suffer a nervous breakdown.
Generic synonyms: Get, Have, Suffer, Sustain
Derivative terms: Collapse, Crack-up
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crock Up
Literary usage of Crock up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Essex. Norf. Suff. To CROCK, ra To defile with smut. Naif. To CROCK-UP, ra To
put away care fully, as though in a crock. Hants. CROCKY, adj. Smutty. Norf. ..."
2. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"It is a very serious business if the men are going to crock up. As for myself,
I never felt fitter and my party can easily hold its own. ..."
3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"... and what's to be done should men, with a limited number of nags, and illimitable
district work, crock up their only means of locomotion. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"To crock up = To store. To cry roast meat. (i) to make known one's good luck.
(2) to boast of women's favours. ..."
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