crack
noun
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
"A large crack had formed in the roadway."
- A narrow opening.
"Open the door a crack."
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
"I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle."
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
"crack head"
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
"The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles."
- Any sharp sound.
"The crack of the bat hitting the ball."
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- An attempt at something.
"I'd like to take a crack at that game."
- Vagina.
"I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!"
- The space between the buttocks.
"Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing."
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
"He/she is quare good crack."
- Business; events; news.
"What's the crack?"
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
"Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?"
- (elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
"He has a crack."
- A crazy or crack-brained person.
- A boast; boasting.
- Breach of chastity.
- A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
"I'll be with you in a crack."
verb
- To form cracks.
"It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack."
- To break apart under pressure.
"When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked."
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
"Anyone would crack after being hounded like that."
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
"When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked."
- To make a cracking sound.
"The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six."
- (of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
"His voice cracked with emotion."
- (of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
"His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen."
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
""I would too, with a face like that," she cracked."
- To make a crack or cracks in.
"The ball cracked the window."
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
"You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut."
- To strike forcefully.
"She cracked him over the head with her handbag."
- To open slightly.
"Could you please crack the window?"
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
"They managed to crack him on the third day."
- To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
"I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight."
- To overcome a security system or a component.
"It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe."
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
"to crack a whip"
- To tell (a joke).
"The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke."
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
"Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C."
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
"That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it."
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
"I'd love to crack open a beer."
- To brag, boast.
- To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
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