Sekirov Dictionary

crack

/kɹæk/

noun 28
verb 26
adjective 2
forms 7
phrases 17

noun28

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a thin line in something hard, such as glass or a wall, where it has started to break
- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
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A narrow opening.
- We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
- Open the door a crack.
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The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
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Any sharp sound.
- The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
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Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe.
- And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama — 1995
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(slang, figurative) Something pleasurable (good-tasting or appealing) and habit-forming.
- Her love was crack to me, and I was hooked real bad.
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(slang) An attempt at something.
- I'd like to take a crack at that game.
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(figurative) A flaw, weakness, setback, or insecurity.
- It’s a fact all those cracks they can hold you back / But there’s a better way (there’s a better way) / Just keep on pushing, keep on pushing, keep on pushing / For a brighter day — 1978
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(slang, figurative) A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
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(slang, vulgar) The space between the buttocks.
- Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
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(Ireland, Scotland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The party was great crack.
- He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]
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A chat.
- And when he come down in the evenings, he’d drop in every night to have a crack wi’ Old Bob. — 1936
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A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
A sharp, resounding blow.
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(Ireland, Scotland) Business; events; news.
- What's the crack?
- What's this crack about a possible merger?
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(slang, old-fashioned) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
- I'll be with you in a crack.
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The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the mannish cracke, sing him to'th'ground — 1611
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(slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack. — 1956
(Internet) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
(old-fashioned) The act of hitting on someone.
(US, old-fashioned) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
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(no longer used) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
- He has a crack.
(no longer used) A crazy or crack-brained person.
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(no longer used) One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.
- 1st Gent. What dost think, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you. — 1888
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(no longer used) A boast; boasting.
- Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leasings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes — 1590
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(no longer used) Breach of chastity.
- But thinke her bond of Chastity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt. — 1611
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(no longer used) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- The same Sir Iohn, the very same: I saw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […] — 1596
(no longer used) Dry firewood.

verb26

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To form cracks.
- It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
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To make a crack or cracks in.
- The ball cracked the window.
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To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
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To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
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To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
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To overcome a security system or component.
- It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
- They finally cracked the code.
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To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
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To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
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To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
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(figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- They managed to crack him on the third day.
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(figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
- I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
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To make a sharply humorous comment.
- "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
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To tell (a joke).
- The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
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To make a cracking sound.
- The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
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To cause to make a sharp sound.
- Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy[…] — 2001
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To change rapidly in register.
- His voice cracked with emotion.
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To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
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To open slightly.
- Could you please crack the window?
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(informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- I'd love to crack open a beer.
- Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
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To strike forcefully.
- She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
- I cracked myhead on a beam.
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(informal) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
- An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100
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(slang) To have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.
- Did you hear about Josh cracking Stacy in the school hall?
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(slang) To have sex.
- i shifted to crack him. i cracked him real good in my dr. — 2026
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To realize that one is transgender.
- She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.
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(informal, no longer used) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
- The credit[…]of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. — 1697
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(no longer used) To brag; to boast.
- To whom the boaster, that all knights did blot, / With proud disdaine did scornefull answere make; […] And further did vncomely speaches crake. — 1596

adjective2

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Highly trained and competent.
- Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
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Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
- She's a crack shot with that rifle.

forms

crack'd · cracked · crackt · cracking · cracketh · cracks · crackest

Phrases with crack

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