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Definition of Cracked
1. Adjective. Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure. "Chapped lips"
2. Adjective. Of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide.
3. Adjective. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. "It used to drive my husband balmy"
Similar to: Insane
Derivative terms: Daftness, Kook, Loon
Definition of Cracked
1. a. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
Definition of Cracked
1. Adjective. Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface. ¹
2. Adjective. Broken into coarse pieces. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a voice) Harsh or dissonant. ¹
4. Adjective. (slang) Crazy; crackpot. ¹
5. Verb. (past of crack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cracked
1. crack [v] - See also: crack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cracked
Literary usage of Cracked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"819 and 821 Sacramento Street were also much cracked and damaged. tween Post ...
The front wall is very much cracked, and is likely to fall at any moment. ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"cracked or cracked-DP,///, adj. phr. (colloquiali.—I. Ruined ; 'bust up ' ; '
gone to smash ... The Prisoner : Am I cracked? Of course—in the nut. ..."
3. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"On bark of trees and decaying woods. alba-, crust sub-determinate, membranaceous,
somewhat cracked, white, with conglomerated cinereous or greenish-milky ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"Although defendant controverted the fact that the pulley was In a cracked and
Insecure condition, Its evidence on this question was negative and ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"[The name of the translator of the farce “ The Mender of cracked China.ware,” is
not stated in The Chinese Repository. The writer of the article thus ..."
6. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1911)
"About twenty chimneys were badly cracked Duplex pendulum record of the earthquake
at Los Gains. Hy IH Snyder. The figure represents the movement of a point. ..."
7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"819 and 821 Sacramento Street were also much cracked and damaged. tween Post ...
The front wall is very much cracked, and is likely to fall at any moment. ..."
8. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"cracked or cracked-DP,///, adj. phr. (colloquiali.—I. Ruined ; 'bust up ' ; '
gone to smash ... The Prisoner : Am I cracked? Of course—in the nut. ..."
9. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"On bark of trees and decaying woods. alba-, crust sub-determinate, membranaceous,
somewhat cracked, white, with conglomerated cinereous or greenish-milky ..."
10. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"Although defendant controverted the fact that the pulley was In a cracked and
Insecure condition, Its evidence on this question was negative and ..."
11. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"[The name of the translator of the farce “ The Mender of cracked China.ware,” is
not stated in The Chinese Repository. The writer of the article thus ..."
12. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1911)
"About twenty chimneys were badly cracked Duplex pendulum record of the earthquake
at Los Gains. Hy IH Snyder. The figure represents the movement of a point. ..."
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