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.
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Crack Quotations
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
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
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Spurgeon
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Orlando Bloom
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 real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?
Denis Leary
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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