crack
/kɹæk/ noun B2- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. · A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- A narrow opening. · We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.· Open the door a crack.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. · I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
- A flaw, weakness, setback, or insecurity.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe. · crack head
- Something pleasurable (good-tasting or appealing) and habit-forming. · kitty crack· Her love was crack to me, and I was hooked real bad.
- 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.
Plural cracks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- crack along To move quickly; to continue with work briskly.
- crack down To take harsh action (against), as when enforcing a law o...
- crack off To shoot a gun.
- crack on To continue (at a task) briskly or promptly.
- crack out To show signs or symptoms of excessive crack cocaine use.
- crack through To penetrate
- crack up To laugh heartily.
From the library
Danglars, who really began to experience sundry gnawings at the stomach, arose softly, again applied his eye to the crack of the door, and recognized the intelligent countenance of his guide.
Then he flung open the window, and putting his knife through the crack in the shutters, he thrust the bar up and swung them open.
I didn’t think there was a soul in England who didn’t know Godfrey Staunton, the crack three-quarter, Cambridge, Blackheath, and five Internationals.
“‘The defeat of the Light Blues may be entirely attributed to the unfortunate absence of the crack International, Godfrey Staunton, whose want was felt at every instant of the game.
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