Main entry: crack, cracking, fracture
Definition: the act of cracking something
Main entry: whirl, crack, offer, pass, fling, go
Definition: a usually brief attempt
Usage: he took a crack at it; I gave it a whirl
Main entry: crack, crack cocaine, tornado
Definition: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Definition: a narrow opening
Usage: he opened the window a crack
Main entry: crack
Definition: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
Usage: there was a crack in the mirror
Main entry: quip, sally, crack, wisecrack
Definition: witty remark
Main entry: crack, cracking, snap
Definition: a sudden sharp noise
Usage: the crack of a whip; he heard the cracking of the ice; he can hear the snap of a twig
Main entry: crack, crevice, scissure, cleft, fissure
Definition: a long narrow opening
Main entry: fissure, crack, cranny, crevice, chap
Definition: a long narrow depression in a surface
Definition: a chance to do something
Usage: he wanted a shot at the champion
Main entry: crack
Definition: break into simpler molecules by means of heat
Usage: The petroleum cracked
Main entry: crack
Definition: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
Main entry: break, check, crack
Definition: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
Usage: The glass cracked when it was heated
Main entry: crack
Definition: cause to become cracked
Usage: heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair
Definition: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
Usage: The pipe snapped
Main entry: crack
Definition: break partially but keep its integrity
Usage: The glass cracked
Main entry: break through, crack
Definition: pass through (a barrier)
Usage: Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county
Main entry: crack
Definition: tell spontaneously
Usage: crack a joke
Main entry: crack
Definition: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
Usage: The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler
Main entry: break up, collapse, crack, crack up, crock up
Definition: suffer a nervous breakdown
Definition: make a sharp sound
Usage: his fingers snapped
Main entry: crack
Definition: make a very sharp explosive sound
Usage: His gun cracked
Main entry: crack
Definition: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
Usage: she cracked my password; crack a safe
Main entry: super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops, A-one, ace, crack, first-rate
Definition: of the highest quality
Usage: 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