crack
adjective
1. of the highest quality
- a crack shot
Similar word(s): superior, ace, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops
Sentences with crack as an adjective:
- Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
- She's a crack shot with that rifle.
noun
1. a long narrow opening
Similar word(s): cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
Definition categories: object, gap, opening
2. a narrow opening
- he opened the window a crack
Similar word(s): gap
Definition categories: man–made, opening
3. a long narrow depression in a surface
Similar word(s): chap, cranny, crevice, fissure
Definition categories: shape, depression, impression, imprint
4. a sudden sharp noise
- the crack of a whip
- he heard the cracking of the ice
Similar word(s): cracking, snap
Definition categories: event, noise
5. a chance to do something
Similar word(s): shot
Definition categories: state, chance, opportunity
6. witty remark
Similar word(s): quip, sally, wisecrack
Definition categories: communication, comment, input, remark
7. a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- there was a crack in the mirror
Definition categories: attribute, blemish, defect, mar
8. a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Similar word(s): tornado
Definition categories: man–made, cocain, cocaine
9. a usually brief attempt
- he took a crack at it
Similar word(s): fling, go, offer, pass, whirl
Definition categories: act, attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
10. the act of cracking something
Similar word(s): cracking, fracture
Definition categories: act, break, breakage, breaking
Sentences with crack as a noun:
- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
- Open the door a crack.
- I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
- The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
- The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
- I'd like to take a crack at that game.
- Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
- The crack was good.
- That was good crack.
- He/she is quare good crack.
- The party was great crack.
- What's the crack?
- Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
- He has a crack.
- I'll be with you in a crack.
verb
1. become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- The glass cracked when it was heated
Definition categories: change
2. make a very sharp explosive sound
- His gun cracked
Definition categories: perception, go, sound
3. make a sharp sound
Similar word(s): snap
Definition categories: perception, go, sound
4. hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler
Definition categories: contact, hit
5. pass through (a barrier)
- Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county
Definition categories: change, pass
6. break partially but keep its integrity
- The glass cracked
Definition categories: change, break, check, crack
7. break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
Similar word(s): snap
Definition categories: change, break, separate
8. gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- she cracked my password
- crack a safe
Definition categories: social, break
9. suffer a nervous breakdown
Similar word(s): collapse
Definition categories: emotion, get, have, suffer, sustain
10. tell spontaneously
- crack a joke
Definition categories: communication, narrate, recite, recount, tell
11. cause to become cracked
- heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
12. reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
Definition categories: change, decompose
13. break into simpler molecules by means of heat
- The petroleum cracked
Definition categories: change
Sentences with crack as a verb:
- It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
- Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
- The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
- His voice cracked with emotion.
- His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
- "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
- The ball cracked the window.
- You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
- She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
- Could you please crack the window?
- They managed to crack him on the third day.
- 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.
- They finally cracked the code.
- to crack a whip
- The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
- Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
- That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
- I'd love to crack open a beer.