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Crack   /kræk/   Listen
noun
Crack  n.  
1.
A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
2.
Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. "My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw."
3.
A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip. "Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?"
4.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty. "Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack."
5.
Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
6.
A crazy or crack-brained person. (Obs.) "I... can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector."
7.
A boast; boasting. (Obs.) "Crack and brags." "Vainglorius cracks."
8.
Breach of chastity. (Obs.)
9.
A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. (Obs.) "Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam."
10.
A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. (Eng. & Scot. Colloq.)
11.
Free conversation; friendly chat. (Scot.) "What is crack in English?... A crack is... a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it."
12.
A witty remark; a wisecrack.
13.
A chance or opportunity to do something; an attempt; as, I'll take a crack at it.
14.
A form of cocaine, highly purified and prepared as small pellets, especially suitable for smoking; also called rock. Used in this form it appears to be more addicting than cocaine powder. (slang)


verb
Crack  v. t.  (past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking)  
1.
To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2.
To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. "O, madam, my old heart is cracked." "He thought none poets till their brains were cracked."
3.
To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
4.
To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
5.
To cry up; to extol; followed by up. (Low)
To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents.
To crack a crib, to commit burglary. (Slang)
To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. (Colloq.)


Crack  v. i.  
1.
To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. "By misfortune it cracked in the coling." "The mirror cracked from side to side."
2.
To be ruined or impaired; to fail. (Collog.) "The credit... of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out."
3.
To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. "As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack."
4.
To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; with of. (Archaic.) "Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack."


adjective
Crack  adj.  Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot. (Colloq.) "One of our crack speakers in the Commons."





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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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