Definition of Crock up

1. Verb. Suffer a nervous breakdown.

Exact synonyms: Break Up, Collapse, Crack, Crack Up
Generic synonyms: Get, Have, Suffer, Sustain
Derivative terms: Collapse, Crack-up

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crock Up

crocheters
crocheting
crochets
crochetwork
croci
crocidismus
crocidolite
crocidolites
crocin
crocine
crock
crock of gold
crock pot
crock pots
crock up (current term)
crocked
crocker
crockeries
crockers
crockery
crockeryware
crockerywares
crocket
crocketed
crocketing
crocketings
crockets
crocking
crocklets

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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