crack

Plural: cracks

Noun

• a long narrow opening
• a narrow opening
  • "he opened the window a crack"
• a long narrow depression in a surface
• a sudden sharp noise
  • "the crack of a whip"
  • "he heard the cracking of the ice"
• a chance to do something
• witty remark
• a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
  • "there was a crack in the mirror"
• a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
• a usually brief attempt
  • "he took a crack at it"
• the act of cracking something
• A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• a meaningful chat.
• 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.
• One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.

Verb

Verb Forms: cracked, cracking, cracks

• To break or split without completely separating.
• become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
  • "The glass cracked when it was heated"
• make a very sharp explosive sound
  • "His gun cracked"
• make a sharp sound
• hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
  • "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
• pass through (a barrier)
  • "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
• break partially but keep its integrity
  • "The glass cracked"
• break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
• gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
  • "she cracked my password"
  • "crack a safe"
• suffer a nervous breakdown
• tell spontaneously
  • "crack a joke"
• cause to become cracked
  • "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
• reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
• break into simpler molecules by means of heat
  • "The petroleum cracked"
• To form cracks.
• To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
• To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• To make a cracking sound.
• To change rapidly in register.
• To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
• To make a sharply humorous comment.
• To realize that one is transgender.
• To make a crack or cracks in.
• To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• To strike forcefully.
• To open slightly.
• To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
• To solve a difficult problem.
• To overcome a security system or component.
• To cause to make a sharp sound.
• To tell (a joke).
• To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
• To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• To brag; to boast.
• To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).

Adjective Satellite

• of the highest quality
  • "a crack shot"

Adj

• Highly trained and competent.
• Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

Examples

• "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
• A large crack had formed in the roadway.
• Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
• An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100
• Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
• Could you please crack the window?
• crack head
• Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
• Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
• He has a crack.
• He tried to CRACK the code of his opponent’s strategy, but it remained elusive.
• He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]
• His voice cracked with emotion.
• His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
• I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
• I'd like to take a crack at that game.
• I'd love to crack open a beer.
• I'll be with you in a crack.
• I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
• It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
• It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
• kitty crack
• Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
• Open the door a crack.
• Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
• She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.
• She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
• She's a crack shot with that rifle.
• That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
• The ball cracked the window.
• The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
• The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
• The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
• The party was great crack.
• The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
• They finally cracked the code.
• They managed to crack him on the third day.
• to crack a whip
• We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
• What's the crack?
• What's this crack about a possible merger?
• When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
• When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
• You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

Synonyms

A-one, ace, break, break through, break up, chap, check, cleft, collapse, crack cocaine, crack up, cracking, cranny, crevice, crock up, first-rate, fissure, fling, fracture, gap, go, offer, pass, quip, sally, scissure, shot, snap, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops, tornado, whirl, wisecrack, Grand Canyon, New York minute, New York second, Virginia, anal cleft, arse crack, ass crack, axe wound, bang, bat of an eye, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bit, blam, blink of an eye, bonhomie, bonne bouche, boom, boom-boom, box, brag, bum crack, bun, bush, buttcrack, cavern, clack, clap, click, clunge, clunk, coin slot, cooch, coochie, cookie, cooter, cooze, crack, crack rock, crackpot, craic, cunny, cunt, eyeblink, fanny, fish lips, flash, foo-foo, front bottom, front bum, front hole, gash, ginch, girl, glimpse, gluteal cleft, half a mo, hard, honeypot, hoo-ha, innie, instant, intergluteal cleft, jiff, jiffy, jollity, jot, joviality, juice box, kaboom, kebab, kerboom, kitty, la-la, laugh, love box, love tunnel, minge, minnie, minute, mo, moment, monosyllable, moocha, muff, muffin, natal cleft, no time, nonny, pee-pee, penis fly trap, pink, pink bits, pistol, poontang, pop, pow, pump, punani, pussy, quim, report, sausage wallet, sec, second, sheath, slit, snapper, snatch, span, split-second, spurt, squish mitten, stench trench, stound, strange, sugar walls, tick, trap, trice, tuppence, twat, twink, twinkle, twinkling, va-jay-jay, vadge, vag, vagina, vaginer, vaunt, vertical smile, vulva, warmth, wee-wee, while, whisker biscuit, wizard's sleeve

Related Words

crackerjack, crazed, hack

Anagrams of crack