The meaning of Crack
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Crack – definition
nounA line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking apart.
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A hairline crack down the middle of the glassnounA sudden sharp or explosive noise.
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A loud crack of thundernounA joke, typically a critical or unkind one.
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He knew about the gossip and would make the odd cracknounEnjoyable social activity; a good time.
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He loved the crack, the laughingnounAn attempt to achieve something.
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I fancy having a crack at winning a fourth titlenounA potent hard crystalline form of cocaine broken into small pieces and inhaled or smoked.
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He uses crack and cocaine
verbBreak or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts.
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The ice all over the bog had crackedverbMake or cause to make a sudden sharp or explosive sound.
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A shot cracked across the ridgeverbFind a solution to; decipher or interpret.
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The code will help you crack the messagesverbTell (a joke).
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He cracked jokes which she didn't find very funnyverbDecompose (hydrocarbons) by heat and pressure with or without a catalyst to produce lighter hydrocarbons, especially in oil refining.
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Catalytic cracking increases gasoline yields
verbTo damage something by causing thin lines or spaces to appear on its surface; break slightly
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[ i ] the concrete on the front of the building had begun to crack., [ t ] the x-ray showed that sh…
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Word origin
Old English cracian ‘make an explosive noise’; of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraken and German krachen . crack (sense 4 of the noun) is from Irish craic ‘entertaining conversation’.
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