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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

Cracked adj.

1.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

2.

Crack-brained. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Cracked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cracked" Quotes from Famous Books

... scattered. As no one gave the usual agonized yell of a prisoner when shot, we supposed the ball had not taken effect. We could hear the sentinel ramming down another cartridge, hear him "return rammer," and cock his rifle. Again the gun cracked, and again there was no sound of anybody being hit. Again we could hear the sentry churning down another cartridge. The drums began beating the long roll in the camps, and officers could be heard turning the men out. ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... The shafts of light from the machine's tube ceased; creamy liquid dribbled out from the cracked dome, and, as it met the air, frothed into billows of dense gray smoke. In seconds, the room was choked with a thick, foggy vapor that obscured every object in it as well as the blackest ...

— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall

... took Miss Dearsley's hand in his brown, ragged, cracked paw, and kissed it—which is offence number three against the proprieties. But then you know the soldiers used to kiss ...

— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

... the earth gan to tremble! Together they charged as if heaven would fall! First they let fly, exceedingly quick darts all as thick as the snow down falleth; stones they let afterwards sternly wind through the air. Then cracked spears; shivered spears,—helms rolled, noble men fell;—burnies brake in pieces, blood outflowed;—the fields were discoloured, standards fell! Wounded knights over all wandered over the weald, and sixty hundred there were trodden to death by horses! Knights there ...

— Brut • Layamon

... soluble in water, and which was probably made from the gum of some kind of acacia. It was not always used in the same manner. Some painters varnished the whole surface, while others merely glazed the ornaments and accessories, without touching the flesh-tints or the clothing. This varnish has cracked from the effects of age, or has become so dark as to spoil the work it was intended to preserve. Doubtless, the Egyptians discovered the bad effects produced by it, as we no longer meet with it after the close ...

— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero

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