CRACK
\kɹˈak], \kɹˈak], \k_ɹ_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of CRACK
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To burst, break, or sever; cause to make a sharp snap; tell spiritedly, as a joke; to craze; injure; open, as a bottle.
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Colloquially, of superior excellence.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A lie: a fib. "A confounded crack."-Goldsmith. (Old slang.).
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To utter a sharp sudden sound: to split.
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To produce a sudden noise: to break into chinks: to split: to break partially or wholly.
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A sudden sharp splitting sound: a chink: a flaw.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To burst; split; break open; snap; tell with spirit.
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A partial breakage; a fissure; a sharp sound; a sounding blow.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Having qualities to be boasted of.
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A disruption; a chink or fissure; a sharp or loud sound uttered suddenly or with vehemence; change of voice in puberty; craziness of intellect; an instant of time.
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To break into chinks; to break partially or wholly; to produce a sharp abrupt sound, like that of rending; to snap; to utter with smartness; to affect deeply; to impair the intellectual faculties; to make crazy.
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To open in chinks; to fall to ruin; to be impaired; to utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; to boast; to brag.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To rend; to burst or break partially; to split; to disorder or destroy; to throw out smartly, as to crack a whip, to crack a joke.
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In familiar language, having qualities to be boasted of; first-rate, as a crack horse, a crack stud.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A partial separation of the parts of a substance; a chink or fissure; —a sharp noise; the break in the voice at puberty; —craziness of intellect; insanity.
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A sudden disruption; chink, fissure, narrow breach; the sound of any body bursting or falling; any sudden and quick sound; any breach, injury, or diminution, a flaw; craziness of intellect; a man crazed; a whore; a boast; a boaster. These last are low and vulgar uses of the word.
By Thomas Sheridan
