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Crack

noun

1.

A long narrow opening. Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure.

2.

A narrow opening. Synonym: gap.

3.

A long narrow depression in a surface. Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure.

4.

A sudden sharp noise. Synonyms: cracking, snap. "He heard the cracking of the ice" , "He can hear the snap of a twig"

5.

A chance to do something. Synonym: shot.

6.

Witty remark. Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack.

7.

A blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts.

8.

A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive. Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado.

9.

A usually brief attempt. Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl. "I gave it a whirl"

10.

The act of cracking something. Synonyms: cracking, fracture.

verb

(past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking)

1.

Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only. Synonyms: break, check.

2.

Make a very sharp explosive sound.

3.

Make a sharp sound. Synonym: snap.

4.

Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise.

5.

Pass through (a barrier). Synonym: break through.

6.

Break partially but keep its integrity.

7.

Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension. Synonym: snap.

8.

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

9.

Suffer a nervous breakdown. Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up.

10.

Tell spontaneously.

11.

Cause to become cracked.

12.

Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.

13.

Break into simpler molecules by means of heat.

adjective

1.

Of the highest quality. Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops. "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"

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"Crack" Quotes from Famous Books

... protecting the back, it would bend when the book was opened and allow the back to "throw up" (see fig. 1, A). When gold tooling became common, and the backs of books were elaborately decorated, it was found that the creasing of the leather injured the brightness or the gold and caused it to crack. To avoid this the binders lined up the back until it was as stiff as a block of wood. The back would then not "throw up" as the book was opened, the leather would not be creased, and the gold would remain uninjured (see fig. ...

— Bookbinding, and the Care of Books - A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians • Douglas Cockerell

... I'm so light (oh, the thought makes me shiver), Crack! Bang! And from shore unto shore The water jumped out; I was half in the river, And don't mean to slide ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... made to work," scoffed Teddy. "He's made to sit on the box and crack the whip, while we common trash pull and ...

— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport

... blotting-paper, and the smell that had been only faintly in the air before was now heavy around them, blown in thick gusts as the wind moved through the trees. Shrapnel now could be distinctly heard at no great distance, with its hiss, its snap of sound, and sometimes rifle-shots like the crack of a ball on a cricket bat broke through the thickets. They separated, spreading like beaters in a long line: "Soon," Trenchard told me, "I was quite alone. I could hear sometimes the breaking of a twig or a stumbling footfall but I might have been alone at ...

— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

... Soviet Union has surrounded itself with captive and sullen nations. Like a crack in the crust of an uneasily sleeping volcano, the Hungarian uprising revealed the depth and intensity of the patriotic longing for liberty that still ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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