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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