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Definition of Crack

Crack To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. 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. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. 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. The tone of voice when changed at puberty. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack. A crazy or crack-brained person. A boast; boasting. Breach of chastity. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. Free conversation; friendly chat. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. Related Definitions: Affect, An, And, Anything, As, At, Be, Boast, Boasted, Boasting, Boy, Brag, Breach, Break, Brief, Broken, Burst, By, Cause, Changed, Chastity, Chat, Chink, Conversation, Crack, Crack-Brained, Craze, Craziness, Crazy, Crevice, Cry, Deeply, Disorder, Distract, Entire, Excellence, Extol, Fail, Falling, Fissure, Flaw, Followed, Free, Friendly, Generally, Glass, Grief, Having, He, Hence, House, Has, Impaired, In, Insanity, Instant, Into, Joke, Lively, Loud, Mental, Moral, Narrow, Of, One, Open, Opening, Or, Pain, Partial, Perceptible, Person, Pert, Pompous, Puberty, Qualities, Quite, Rend, Report, Ruined, Rupture, Sense, Separating, Separation, Sharp, Sharply, Smartly, Snap, Sorrow, Sound, Sudden, Superior, The, Thunder, Timber, Time, To, Tone, Touch, Up, Utter, Vain, Voice, Wall, When, Whip, With, Without

Crack Quotations There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. Franz Kafka

Crack Translations crack in Dutch is barst crack in French is croustiller, fissure, craquement, fracas, craquer crack in Italian is sciogliere, crepatura, schiacciare crack in Latin is fragor crack in Portuguese is rachadura crack in Spanish is crujir, solucionar, hendedura, raja, crujido

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