Meaning of crack a crib | Babel Free

Definitions

To break into a house.

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Examples

“He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.”

“Here in Macedonia I learned that honey is not so successful as one believes, that no bee ever realizes its full intention, and that the perfumer is a clumsy bungler who never cracks the fragile crib he covets, by approaching a town built in the Turkish manner, with a multitude of little gardens, at a time when the sun had been working for many hours on the acacia trees.”

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