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Crack   /kræk/   Listen
Crack

noun
1.
A long narrow opening.  Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure.
2.
A narrow opening.  Synonym: gap.
3.
A long narrow depression in a surface.  Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure.
4.
A sudden sharp noise.  Synonyms: cracking, snap.  "He heard the cracking of the ice" , "He can hear the snap of a twig"
5.
A chance to do something.  Synonym: shot.
6.
Witty remark.  Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack.
7.
A blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts.
8.
A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive.  Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado.
9.
A usually brief attempt.  Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl.  "I gave it a whirl"
10.
The act of cracking something.  Synonyms: cracking, fracture.
verb
(past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking)
1.
Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.  Synonyms: break, check.
2.
Make a very sharp explosive sound.
3.
Make a sharp sound.  Synonym: snap.
4.
Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise.
5.
Pass through (a barrier).  Synonym: break through.
6.
Break partially but keep its integrity.
7.
Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension.  Synonym: snap.
8.
Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions.  "Crack a safe"
9.
Suffer a nervous breakdown.  Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up.
10.
Tell spontaneously.
11.
Cause to become cracked.
12.
Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.
13.
Break into simpler molecules by means of heat.
adjective
1.
Of the highest quality.  Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops.  "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"



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"Crack" Quotes from Famous Books



... minute for something. He "would even get in ten minutes of work between river and Hall." He not only became a prize scholar and oarsman, but won walking races; he joined the Volunteers and became a crack rifle shot, and ...
— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.
... much to say to the farmers about their farms, and seemed to know all their horses by name. There was an old fellow, with a round, ruddy face, and a night-cap under his hat, the village wit, who took several occasions to crack a joke with him in the hearing of his companions, to whom he would turn and wink hard when Master Simon ...
— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving
... from the doorway moved towards and THROUGH me, and with the coldness of its passage I revived! With desperate energy I cut a couple of chunks off the washstand, and paring them down, eventually succeeded in slipping them in the crack of the door, and rendering it impossible to open from the outside. That done, I staggered to the bed, and falling, dressed as I was, on the counterpane, sank into a deep sleep. How long I slept ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... walking about with a temperature of 103. I was so much annoyed that I promptly smashed the thermometer, and we had a fine chase after the quicksilver. You never saw anything like it! It ran like a rabbit, in and out of the nooks and corners of the chair, until at last it disappeared through a crack in the floor; went to ground, you know. Doesn't Helen look ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... of those sunny and windy flats, he came upon a sort of cleft almost narrow enough to be called a crack in the land. It was just large enough to be the water-course for a small stream which vanished at intervals under green tunnels of undergrowth, as if in a dwarfish forest. Indeed, he had an odd feeling as if he were a giant looking over the valley ...
— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton


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