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Crackerjack   Listen
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Crackerjack  adj.  (also spelled crackajack)  Of marked ability or excellence. (Slang)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Crackerjack" Quotes from Famous Books



... off with that to some of the girls that were eating their luncheon together, and he happened by and made me repeat it. To-day he said he had had it in mind ever since, and had found that he could adapt it and change the music and make it into a regular vaudeville feature. He thinks it's a real crackerjack. He's going to begin right away to give me ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray

... reliable third baseman, equal to that crackerjack Harmony boasts about as the best in the State!" gasped Toby. "Why, only yesterday I heard you say our Fred was getting better right along, and that his equal couldn't be easily found. We don't even need to keep a substitute back of Fred, his work is ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... the head photographer," Werner explained. "He's a crackerjack, too! One of the best lighting experts in the country. Al Penny's ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve

... ourselves lucky over, Jack; that's having such a good coach as old Joe Hooker. He used to be a crackerjack football player in his day; and it was a good deal owing to his work with the nine that Chester won through with Harmony ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton

... me that we'd do better all to work on one big, crackerjack set than each to make a separate long distance set," said Herb. "In the first place, it's more fun working together. And then we could put our money together and get better equipment than we could the other ...
— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman



Words linked to "Crackerjack" :   jimdandy, ideal, jimhickey, nonpareil, paragon



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