Meaning of crack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.
   obsolete
2. A surname
3. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
   countable, uncountable
4. Crack, loophole, opening.
5. A narrow opening.
   countable, uncountable
6. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
   countable, uncountable
7. Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
   countable, slang, uncountable
8. Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
   countable, figuratively, humorous, slang, uncountable
9. The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
   countable, onomatopoeic, uncountable
10. Any sharp sound.
    countable, onomatopoeic, uncountable
11. A sharp, resounding blow.
    countable, uncountable
12. An attempt at something.
    countable, informal, uncountable
13. The vagina.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
14. The space between the buttocks.
    countable, informal, uncountable
15. Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
    Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, countable, uncountable
16. A chat.
    Cumbria, Northern-UK, countable, uncountable
17. Business; events; news.
    Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, countable, uncountable
18. A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
    countable, uncountable
19. 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.
    US, countable, dated, uncountable
20. Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
21. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
    countable, uncountable
22. A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
23. A crazy or crack-brained person.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
24. A boast; boasting.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
25. Breach of chastity.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
26. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
    UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
28. The act of hitting on someone.
    countable, dated, uncountable
29. Dry firewood.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

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