Crack

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1. Verb

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2. Verb

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

3. Verb

To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

4. Verb

To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.

5. Verb

To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.

6. Verb

To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

7. Verb

To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

8. Verb

To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

9. Verb

To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.

10. Noun

A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

11. Noun

Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

12. Noun

A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.

13. Noun

The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

14. Noun

Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

15. Noun

A crazy or crack-brained person.

16. Noun

A boast; boasting.

17. Noun

Breach of chastity.

18. Noun

A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

19. Noun

A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.

20. Noun

Free conversation; friendly chat.

21. Adjective

Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

22. Noun

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

23. Noun

a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science

24. Noun

the act of cracking something
Vocabulary classified under Media and communication
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