or cracked-up, ppl. adj. phr. (colloquial).—1. Ruined; ‘bust up’; ‘gone to smash’ or to ‘pot.’ For synonyms, see DEAD BROKE.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 2 [also pp. 24, 47]. If a Catholic coster,—there’s only a very few of them—is CRACKED UP (penniless) he’s often started again, and the others have a notion that it’s through some chapel fund. Ibid., p. 22. ‘If we’re CRACKED UP, that is, if we’re forced to go into the Union.’
1870. Britannia, June. ‘Speculation in 1870.’ Of these there only remain now 122 companies, with a capital of a hundred and eighty millions, the rest having one and all CRACKED UP, as the Americans would say.
2. (common).—Crazy. For synonyms, see APARTMENTS and TILE LOOSE.
1872. Daily Telegraph, 3 Sept. ‘Police Court Report.’ Mr. Bushby: Is her head affected? The Prisoner: Am I CRACKED? Of course—in the nut. You’ll be to-morrow.
3. (common).—Deflowered. Also CRACKED IN THE RING.
