crack
Definitions
- One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.
- A surname
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- Crack, loophole, opening.
- A narrow opening.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Any sharp sound.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- An attempt at something.
- The vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- A chat.
- Business; events; news.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
- 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.
- 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.
- The act of hitting on someone.
- Dry firewood.
Equivalents
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Azərbaycan diliçatlaq
বাংলাফাটল
Bosanskikraklanapljesakprasakprocepprocjeppukpukotinarajarimašprungtresakпљесакпрасакпроцеппроцјеппукотина
فارسیترک
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עבריתחרך
हिन्दीदर्रा
Hrvatskikraklanapljesakprasakprocepprocjeppukpukotinarajarimašprungtresakпљесакпрасакпроцеппроцјеппукотина
Հայերենճաք
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ქართულიბზარი
Te Reo Māoriwhakapakaru
Bahasa Melayuretakan
မြန်မာအက်
Portuguêsarrebentarcofrinhocrackcrackarcraquecraquearcrecestaloestralarfendafrestaquebrarracharachaduraracharrego
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Српскиkraklanapljesakprasakprocepprocjeppukpukotinarajarimašprungtresakпљесакпрасакпроцеппроцјеппукотина
తెలుగుబద్దలగు
ไทยรอยร้าว
Türkçeaçmakbozulmakçatçatalçatlakçatlamakçatlatmakçıtçözmekezmekgeçmekkırılmakkırmakövünmekpatlatmakyara
Tiếng Việtkẽ hở
Examples
“A large crack had formed in the roadway.”
“We managed to squeeze⟳ through a crack in the rock wall.”
“Open⟳ the door a crack.”
“Dimitar Berbatov found the first cracks in the home side's resilience when he pulled one back from close⟳ range and Hernandez himself drew the visitors level with a composed finish⟳ three minutes later as Bloomfield Road's earlier jubilation turned to despair.”
“I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.”
“crack head”
“And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama”
“There were times when she could tell⟳ the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask⟳ Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like⟳ crack or ice while she was pregnant with him.”
“kitty crack”
catnip
“When did naming foods after a powerful narcotic become⟳ a thing?[…]Now the mean⟳ streets of New York are rife with “salted crack caramel” ice cream, “pistachio crack” brittle, “crack steak” sandwiches, and “tuna on crack.””
“The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.”
“The crack of the bat hitting the ball.”
“She broke to love⟳ in the opening game, only for Bartoli to hit straight back in game two, which was interrupted by a huge crack of thunder that made Lisicki jump⟳ and prompted nervous laughter from the 15,000 spectators.”
“Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.”
“I'd like⟳ to take⟳ a crack at that game.”
“I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack.”
“Pull⟳ up your pants! Your crack is showing.”
“The party was great crack.”
“He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]”
“But first I maun hae a crack wi' an auld acquaintance here.—Mr. Owen, Mr. Owen, how's a' wi' ye, man?”
“He seed 'em bawth as he coom'd frae t' Nab, / Nobbut aaf an hooer agone: / An' he stopp'd, did Jan, for a bit of a crack, / For t' gells was lahk aloan.”
“Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.”
“"his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk⟳ to"”
“By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!”
“And when he come⟳ down in the evenings, he’d drop in every night to have⟳ a crack wi’ Old Bob.”
“What's the crack?”
“What's this crack about a possible merger?”
“But, aw see⟳ yo known him weel enough; an' so aw'll tell⟳ yo a bit of a crack abeawt him an' Owd Neddy.”
“Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?”
“And let⟳ vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground”
“He has a crack.”
“On the London Cries […] I have⟳ lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject […] ‘Sir, […], but I cannot get⟳ the parliament to listen⟳ to me ; who look⟳ upon me, forsooth, as a crack and a projector […] I am, SIR, &c. / RALPH CROTCHET’”
“Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes”
“D'ye hear⟳ wha's coming to cow yere cracks?”
“But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt.”
“The ſame Sir Iohn, the very ſame: I ſaw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […]”
“Indeed la, tis a noble childe. / - A Cracke Madam.”
“I'll be with you in a crack.”
“The eyes of my sisters who fear my crack^* [footnote] Before the popularization of the term "crack" as a drug, its common usage in the Black community referred to men publicly cruising and approaching women.”
“Stanton had at one time a reputation for inaccessibility, but that has long since become⟳ a thing of the past, […] So that the gallops of the cracks' can, in most cases, be regularly watched and their daily doings truthfully chronicled.”
“1st Gent. What dost think⟳, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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