crack
A baseball player makes a crack hit that sends the ball flying over the outfield fence.
Noun:
- A sudden sharp noise: A short, loud, sharp sound, like that of something breaking or a whip.
- A narrow opening or fissure: A line on a surface where it has broken but not separated into pieces.
- A brief attempt or opportunity: An attempt to do something, often for the first time.
- A witty or sharp remark: A clever, often critical, comment.
- A potent form of cocaine: A purified, smokable, and highly addictive form of the drug cocaine.
Verb:
- To break without complete separation: To develop a fissure or line of breakage, but not shatter.
- To make a sudden sharp sound: To produce a short, loud, snapping noise.
- To find a solution or break into: To solve a difficult problem or gain unauthorized access to a system.
- To tell a joke: To say something humorous.
- To hit sharply: To strike someone or something with a forceful blow.
- To undergo a mental or emotional breakdown: To succumb to psychological stress.
- To break down chemically: To decompose a complex substance (like petroleum) into simpler ones by applying heat.
Adjective:
- Of the highest quality; excellent: Used to describe someone or something that is first-rate or highly skilled.
Noun:
- We heard a loud crack of thunder.
- There's a small crack in the windshield.
- I'd like to take a crack at solving this puzzle.
- He made a funny crack about the weather.
Verb:
- The ice began to crack under the pressure.
- The hunter's rifle cracked in the distance.
- It took her hours to crack the secret code.
- He loves to crack jokes at parties.
- The branch cracked him on the head as it fell.
Adjective:
- She is a crack shot with a rifle.
- They sent in a crack team of commandos.
"to crack a smile": to finally smile, often reluctantly.
- The grumpy old man finally cracked a smile at the child's antics.
"to crack the whip": to act in a strict, demanding manner to get people to work harder.
- The new manager isn't afraid to crack the whip to meet deadlines.
"to crack under pressure": to fail to cope with stress or a difficult situation.
- Some athletes perform best in finals, while others crack under pressure.
"crack of dawn": the very first light of day; very early morning.
- We have to get up at the crack of dawn to start the hike.
Cracked (adj): Having cracks; or (informal) crazy, insane.
- The cracked pavement is a tripping hazard.
- His plan sounds completely cracked.
Cracker (n): A thin, crisp baked good; or (slang, offensive) a poor white person from the southern US; or a device or person that breaks into something (e.g., a safe-cracker).
- She ate cheese and crackers.
Cracking (adj/n/adv): (Adj) Excellent. (N) The process of breaking down hydrocarbons. (Adv) Very.
- We had a cracking good time at the party. (adj)
- The cracking of petroleum is a key refining process. (n)
- Noun (noise): Snap, pop, report.
- Noun (fissure): Split, crevice, fracture.
- Verb (break): Split, fracture, splinter.
- Adjective (excellent): First-rate, top-notch, ace.
Crack down (on): To start dealing with someone or something more strictly.
- The police are cracking down on speeding in this neighborhood.
Crack up: To laugh uncontrollably; or to suffer a mental breakdown.
- That comedian always cracks me up.
- He's working so hard I think he's going to crack up.
Crack on (with): (British English) To continue doing something with determination.
- We need to crack on with this project if we want to finish on time.
A hard/tough nut to crack: A difficult problem to solve or person to understand or influence.
- This math equation is a tough nut to crack.
Fall through the cracks: To be missed or neglected, often by a system.
- Some students' needs fall through the cracks in large schools.
A baseball player makes a crack hit that sends the ball flying over the outfield fence.
- of the highest quality
- an ace reporter
- a crack shot
- a first-rate golfer
- a super party
- played top-notch tennis
- an athlete in tiptop condition
- she is absolutely tops
- the act of cracking something
- a usually brief attempt
- he took a crack at it
- I gave it a whirl
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- there was a crack in the mirror
- witty remark
- a chance to do something
- he wanted a shot at the champion
- a sudden sharp noise
- the crack of a whip
- he heard the cracking of the ice
- he can hear the snap of a twig
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a narrow opening
- he opened the window a crack
- a long narrow opening
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- The petroleum cracked
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- cause to become cracked
- heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair
- tell spontaneously
- crack a joke
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- she cracked my password
- crack a safe
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- The pipe snapped
- break partially but keep its integrity
- The glass cracked
- pass through (a barrier)
- Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler
- make a sharp sound
- his fingers snapped
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- His gun cracked
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- The glass cracked when it was heated