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Definition of Crack

1. Noun. A long narrow opening.

2. Verb. Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only. "These glasses crack easily"; "The glass cracked when it was heated"

3. Adjective. Of the highest quality. "She is absolutely tops"

4. Verb. Make a very sharp explosive sound. "His gun cracked"

5. Noun. A narrow opening. "He opened the window a crack"

6. Verb. Make a sharp sound. "His fingers snapped"

7. Noun. A long narrow depression in a surface.

8. Verb. Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise. "The fighter managed to crack his opponent"; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"

9. Noun. A sudden sharp noise. "He can hear the snap of a twig"

10. Verb. Pass through (a barrier). "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

11. Noun. A chance to do something. "He wanted a shot at the champion"

12. Verb. Break partially but keep its integrity. "The glass cracked"

13. Noun. Witty remark.

14. Verb. Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension. "The pipe snapped"

15. Noun. A blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts. "There was a crack in the mirror"

16. Verb. Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions. "Crack a safe"

17. Noun. A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive.

18. Verb. Suffer a nervous breakdown.

19. Noun. A usually brief attempt. "I gave it a whirl"

20. Noun. The act of cracking something.

21. Verb. Tell spontaneously. "Crack a joke"

22. Verb. Cause to become cracked. "They crack the glass tubes"; "Heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"

23. Verb. Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.

24. Verb. Break into simpler molecules by means of heat. "The petroleum cracked"

Definition of Crack

1. v. t. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2. v. i. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

3. n. 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.

4. a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

Definition of Crack

1. Noun. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. ¹

2. Noun. A narrow opening. ¹

3. Noun. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. ¹

4. Noun. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe. ¹

5. Noun. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks. ¹

6. Noun. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound. ¹

7. Noun. (informal) An opportunity to attempt something. ¹

8. Noun. (vulgar slang) vagina. ¹

9. Noun. (vulgar) The space between the buttocks. ¹

10. Noun. (Northern England Scotland Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company. ¹

11. Noun. (Northern England Scotland) Business/events ¹

12. Noun. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software. ¹

13. Noun. (Cumbria elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat. ¹

14. Noun. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose. ¹

15. Verb. (intransitive) To form cracks. ¹

16. Verb. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure. ¹

17. Verb. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure. ¹

18. Verb. (intransitive) To yield under interrogation. ¹

19. Verb. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound. ¹

20. Verb. (intransitive of a voice) To change rapidly in register. ¹

21. Verb. (intransitive of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. ¹

22. Verb. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment. ¹

23. Verb. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in. ¹

24. Verb. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. ¹

25. Verb. (transitive) To strike forcefully. ¹

26. Verb. (transitive) To open slightly. ¹

27. Verb. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (''Figurative'') ¹

28. Verb. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (qualifier Figurative, from cracking a nut.) ¹

29. Verb. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component. ¹

30. Verb. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound. ¹

31. Verb. (transitive) To tell (a joke). ¹

32. Verb. (transitive chemistry informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. ¹

33. Verb. (transitive computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. ¹

34. Verb. (transitive informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. ¹

35. Verb. (obsolete) To brag, boast. ¹

36. Adjective. Highly trained and competent. ¹

37. Adjective. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crack

1. to break without dividing into parts [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Crack

1. A fissure or fracture. Caused by the effects of stress on weak or weakened parts of a material. To break a large, complex compound into simpler compounds. To open something slightly. A narcotic drug illegal in most countries which is a cheaper, more addictive, smokeable version of cocaine (another illegal narcotic) with more adverse effects on the user than cocaine. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crack

crabers crabfaced crablet crablike crabmeat crabmeats crabronid crabronids crabstick crabsticks

crabwise cracid crack-pipe crack-pipes crack-up crack a book crack a crib crack a fat crack a smile crack addict

crack babies crack baby crack cocaine crack down crack down on crack fic

Literary usage of Crack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Says the skipper, 1 they may go or stand, I'm darned if 1 don't crack ON. ... They're on the stair just now, and IN A crack wilt all be here.' 1842. ..."

2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"crack, crack, whack)—my life—my life—(crack, crack—whack, whack)—oh! for the sake of ... So we will, but take this, anyhow '—(whack, crack, whack, crack). ..."

3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"crack, crack ; crack, crack. What a fuss thou makest ! as if it concerned the good people to be ... But 'tis the spirit of thy nation ; so crack, crack on. ..."

4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1891)
"Diameter at surface, 9 to 954 inches. No fringe. Through crack ... 1, subsequently opened up to wide through crack. Partially through crack 33 inches long ..."

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