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verb Crack v. t. (past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking) 1.To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. "O, madam, my old heart is cracked." "He thought none poets till their brains were cracked." 3.To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. 4.To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. 5.To cry up; to extol; followed by up. (Low) To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. To crack a crib, to commit burglary. (Slang) To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. (Colloq.)
Crack v. i. 1.To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. "By misfortune it cracked in the coling." "The mirror cracked from side to side." 2.To be ruined or impaired; to fail. (Collog.) "The credit... of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out." 3.To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. "As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack." 4.To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; with of. (Archaic.) "Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack."
adjective cracking adj. Same as groovy, sense 1. (informal) Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cool, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(predicate), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing.
noun cracking n. 1.The act of cracking something. Synonyms: fracture, crack. 2.(Chem.) The process of making lower molecular weight hydrocarbons from heavier hydrocarbons in petroleum, by exposure to heat and catalysts. It is used to convert heavier alkanes into gasoline, or to improve the octane number of an alkane mixture.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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