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CrackCrack Crack (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked
(kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken,
craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to
crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to
rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake,
Cracknel, Creak.]
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. --Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were
cracked. --Roscommon.
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.
--B. Jonson.
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
Crack 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. --Boyle.
The mirror cracked from side to side. --Tennyson.
2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little
comes in and much goes out. --Dryden.
3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak.
4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with
of. [Archaic.]
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak.
Crack
Crack Crack, a.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
[Colloq.]
One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens.
Meaning of Crack from wikipedia
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Crack frequently refers to:
Crack, a
fracture in a body
Crack, a
fracture (geology) in a rock
Crack, short...
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Crack cocaine,
commonly known simply as
crack, and also
known as rock, is a free base form of the
stimulant cocaine that can be smoked.
Crack offers a...
- Look up
cracking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Cracking may
refer to:
Cracking, the
formation of a
fracture or
partial fracture in a
solid material...
- The
crack epidemic was a
surge of
crack cocaine use in
major cities across the
United States throughout the
entirety of the 1980s and the
early 1990s...
- of the
propagation of
cracks in materials. It uses
methods of
analytical solid mechanics to
calculate the
driving force on a
crack and
those of experimental...
- Leftöver
Crack is an
American punk rock band
formed in 1998,
following the
breakup of
Choking Victim. The band is
currently signed to
Tankcrimes for CD...
- A No-disc
crack, No-CD
crack or No-DVD
crack is an
executable file or a
special "byte patcher"
program which allows a user to cir****vent
certain Compact...
- The
Crack is the
debut album by
English punk rock band The Ruts,
released in 1979. The
album contains the UK hit
singles "Babylon's Burning" (number seven...
- Rainbow
Crack is a
computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in p****word
cracking. Rainbow
Crack differs from "conventional"
brute force...
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Joint cracking is the mani****tion of
joints to
produce a
sound and
related "popping" sensation. It is
sometimes performed by
physical therapists, chiropractors...
