Word Finder - crack

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A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

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A large crack had formed in the roadway.

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A narrow opening.

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Open the door a crack.

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A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

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I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.

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Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

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crack head

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The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

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The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

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Any sharp sound.

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The crack of the bat hitting the ball.

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A sharp, resounding blow.

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An attempt at something.

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I'd like to take a crack at that game.

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Vagina.

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I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!

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The space between the buttocks.

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Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.

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Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.

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He/she is quare good crack.

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Business; events; news.

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What's the crack?

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A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

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Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

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(elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.

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Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

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The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

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A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

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He has a crack.

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A crazy or crack-brained person.

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A boast; boasting.

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Breach of chastity.

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A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

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A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

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I'll be with you in a crack.

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To form cracks.

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It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.

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To break apart under pressure.

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When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

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To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

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Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

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To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

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When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

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To make a cracking sound.

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The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

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(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

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His voice cracked with emotion.

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(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

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His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

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To make a sharply humorous comment.

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"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

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To make a crack or cracks in.

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The ball cracked the window.

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To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

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You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

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To strike forcefully.

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She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

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To open slightly.

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Could you please crack the window?

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To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

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They managed to crack him on the third day.

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To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)

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I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

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To overcome a security system or a component.

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It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.

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To cause to make a sharp sound.

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to crack a whip

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To tell (a joke).

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The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

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To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

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Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

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To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

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That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

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To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

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I'd love to crack open a beer.

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To brag, boast.

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To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

He paused near the crack in the ground.

He too is helping to crack it.

He'd felt the earth crack open once before.

A small crack traveled about half way down the piece of wood.

There was a small scream, then the crack of bone and ripping of flesh.

Connor wants to leave at the crack of dawn.

She could wear men's clothes and crack that whip all she wanted, but she was still a woman at heart - and he knew it.

She peered through the crack in the door until certain they both entered the bedroom, then opened the closet door and slid out the opened front door.

The servers come and join you at your table and crack smart jokes about your order, but it's all in good fun and part of its charm.

Katie jerked on the dairy door and the crack of frozen boards echoed in the pregnant silence.

I caught the crack about 'that side of the court room.'

Crack an egg carefully into a bowl and scoop away the egg yolk.

The men around her were smoking crack.

My 'lights out' crack was uncalled for, but so was what you said.

The wire gives the glass great advantages in the event of fracture from a blow or from fire, but owing to the difference in thermal expansion between wire and glass, there is a strong tendency for such " wired glass " to crack spontaneously.

Why do multilayer ceramic capacitors crack or burst into flames?

The crack in the final overhang provides a fitting climax.

Natasha glanced at her and at the crack in the pantry door, and it seemed to her that she remembered the light falling through that crack once before and Sonya passing with a glass in her hand.

I opened the door a crack.

The crack of the wooden door registered a short second before his hand gripped her throat.

With a deep breath, she shoved again, enough for the door to crack open.

She inserted the blade in a crack along the edge of the brush and it separated into two pieces.

The presence of a small quantity of the hard cementite ought naturally to strengthen the mass, by opposing the tendency of the soft ferrite to flow under any stress applied to it; but more cementite by its brittleness naturally weakens the mass, causing it to crack open under the distortion which stress inevitably causes.

At 11am and 1pm we crack the bubbly for midnight back in NZ and Oz, then party on well into the afternoon.

The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.

Two, give him an alternative for safe passage at the same time; this may create a crack in the ruling class clan.

A baby born with fetal alcohol syndrome, or addicted to crack cocaine, is easy to identify.

Here the crack continues to propagate, although the stresses in the rod become compressive.

The chief constable is hoping to form a crack Police Cycling Corps.

To crack down the children of those affected the hifa demonstration waiver.

A huge crack had opened up along the length of the trunk exposing the pale heartwood.

The marathon duel between two geniuses to crack Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs.

She remembered what caused the dome of her underworld to crack.

Then, when he's got Brits hooked, he'll crack the USA and Europe.

Barely a pound of crack and a high class hooker to enjoy it with!

Follow the thin vertical crack above until forced left into a wider crack, which leads to a vegetated ledge.

With a sharp crack a bolt of brilliant white lightning forked across the sky toward us.

She looked away before he did but refused to crack.

The crack grew fast, flying down the trail towards Gabriel.  The sound of the earth tearing grew louder.  The trees on either side of her expanded, quickly doubling and then quadrupling in size.  Afraid of being crushed between them, Katie darted off the trail towards Andre, who ran ahead of her.

Denton's head jerked back and hit the wall with a sharp crack.

Such frost-cracks, sun-cracks, &c., may then be slowly healed over by callus, but if the conditions for necrosis recur the crack may be again opened, or if Fungi, &c., interfere with occlusion, the healing is prevented; in such cases the local necrosis may give rise to cankers.

The Stanwick nectarine, so apt to crack and not to ripen when worked in the ordinary way, is said to be cured of these propensities by being first budded close to the ground, on a very strong-growing Magnum Bonum plum, worked on a Brussels stock, and by then budding the nectarine on the Magnum Bonum about a foot from the ground.

The experiment was repeated year after year till 1867, when the barrage cracked right across from foundation to top. A massive coffer-dam was then erected, covering the eleven arches nearest the crack; but the work was never trusted again, nor the water-surface raised more than about 3 ft.

A cement not perfectly sound will give low results in the hot test, and a cement of indifferent soundness will crack and go to pieces.

This feature indicates that in the event of a crack occurring at the upstream toe, its extension would tend to turn downwards and follow a direction nearly parallel with the maximum pressure lines, in which direction it would not materially affect the stability of the structure.

A loud crack, as if lightning were striking, sent a shockwave of power that made the monument tremble.

He wasn't expecting Fate to crack a joke.

Andre's motioning grew frantic, and Katie looked down.  A small crack had begun to form where the food cubes fell.

In wetter areas alder and crack willow are common.

I abandoned attempts to follow any description precisely and aimed for a beckoning crack above, which had featured somewhere in the description.