Definition of Crack. Meaning of Crack. Synonyms of Crack

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Definition of Crack

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Crack Crack (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.] 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. --Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon. 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. --B. Jonson. 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
Crack 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. --Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. --Tennyson. 2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.] The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. --Dryden. 3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak. 4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak.
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Crack Crack, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. [Colloq.] One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens.

Meaning of Crack from wikipedia

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- Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a...
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- The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s...
- Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998, following the breakup of Choking Victim. The band is currently signed to Tankcrimes for CD...
- cleft, also known by a number of synonyms, including natal cleft, butt crack, **** crack and cluneal cleft, is the groove between the buttocks that runs from...
- of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental...
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- excerpt from "Jah War" Problems playing this file? See media help. The Crack is the debut album by English punk rock band The Ruts, released in 1979...
- adrenaline junkie's guide to crack the code for messy, mindless action and sports". Hindustan Times. "Crakk Review: Cracking Up For All the Wrong Reasons"...