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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



... time, were flying back to the shelter of the wagon-box, but ere they reached it—crack! crack! crack! three shots rang out in quick succession, and three lumps of quivering canine flesh sprawled ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... I left a director's meeting and vital engagements, with indecent firmness, to meet that ship. At crack of dawn on a raw morning in March I arose and drove miles to a freezing pier to meet it. And presently, as I stood muffled in a fur coat, an elderly, grizzled, small man, grim and unexhilarating—presently the soul ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... occasioned by the report of the first real American blow of the war when, late in April, 1917, the crack American freighter Mongolia showed the German Navy that the time had arrived when the long, strong arm of Uncle Sam was reaching out a brawny fist over the troubled waters ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry
... stand on his feet so Chick-chick kneeled down at his side to rub some circulation into his wrists and ankles. Suddenly a great noise of running was heard. Chick-chick looked out through the crack of ...
— The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters - The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow • Charles Henry Lerrigo
... two others without compunction, as he had already lived upon their mother. It was a well-planned speculation on his part. As soon as little Gervaise was eight years old, she went to a neighbouring dealer's to crack almonds; she there earned ten sous a day, which her father pocketed right royally, without even a question from Fine as to what became of the money. The young girl was next apprenticed to a laundress, and as soon as she received two francs a day for ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola


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