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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



... occasion of a New Year's day, when he went to pay his respects to the Jesuit Fathers, and to the good ladies of the Ursulines, to present, with the compliments of the season, the usual New Year's gifts, was he driven in a cariole, and in the summer season in a caleche? Here, again, is a nut to crack for commentators. [12] ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... are tall and square with thin glass sides. Imported from Holland, many were made as early as 1625. One gin bottle was miraculously unearthed intact, and not as much as a chip or crack was found on this 300-year-old ...
— New Discoveries at Jamestown - Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America • John L. Cotter
... at all," he said. "I made it plain as a pikestaff to them both. It mustn't be thought I countenanced their crack-brained troth-plighting. 'T was by reason of my final 'Nay' that Will went off. He 's gone out of her life, and she 'm free as the air. I tell you this because you may have heard different, and you mix with the countryside and can contradict ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... not doubt but that such an old crazy vessel would be the better for being taken in tow. "But howsomever," added this arch adviser, "I'd have you take care of your upper-works; for if once you are made fast to her poop, egad! She'll spank it away, and make every beam in your body crack with straining." ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... the shame of soldiers, Above the best of generals? crack the world, And bruise the name of Romans into dust, Ere we ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson


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