crack

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To form cracks.
 * 2)  To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
 * 3)  To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
 * 4)  To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
 * 5)  To make a cracking sound.
 * 6)  To change rapidly in register.
 * 7)  To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
 * 8)  To make a sharply humorous comment.
 * 9)  To realize that one is transgender.
 * 10)  To make a crack or cracks in.
 * 11)  To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
 * 12)  To strike forcefully.
 * 13)  To open slightly.
 * 14)  To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
 * 15)  To solve a difficult problem.
 * 16)  To overcome a security system or component.
 * 17)  To cause to make a sharp sound.
 * 18)  To tell (a joke).
 * 19)  (chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
 * 20)  To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
 * 21)  To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
 * 22)  To brag; to boast.
 * 23)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 24)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To open slightly.
 * 2)  To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
 * 3)  To solve a difficult problem.
 * 4)  To overcome a security system or component.
 * 5)  To cause to make a sharp sound.
 * 6)  To tell (a joke).
 * 7)  (chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
 * 8)  To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
 * 9)  To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
 * 10)  To brag; to boast.
 * 11)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 12)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To tell (a joke).
 * 2)  (chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
 * 3)  To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
 * 4)  To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
 * 5)  To brag; to boast.
 * 6)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 7)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
 * 2)  To brag; to boast.
 * 3)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 4)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To brag; to boast.
 * 2)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 3)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 2)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 2)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
 * 2)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
 * 1)  To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).

Related terms

 * (exhibiting fine-line cracks)

Translations

 * Assamese:
 * Central: ফাটা
 * Eastern: ফটা
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: sprække, revne
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, rachar,
 * Georgian: დაბზარვა, გაბზარვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Kapampangan: aspak
 * Latin: fatiscō
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: krackya
 * Danish: sprække
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: tawhā
 * Norman: cratchi
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: rozpučiť
 * Spanish:, , , arreventar
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: knække, bryde sammen
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, dare di matto
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: knalde
 * Finnish: rasahtaa,, räsähtää
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:, κάνω κρότο
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: pléasc
 * Italian: schioccare
 * Maori: kē, patatē, pakē
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: brotna
 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whakapakaru
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: soltar gallos


 * Finnish: murjaista
 * French:
 * Russian: ,


 * Danish: sprække
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, rachar
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: bryde op
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق
 * Russian: ,
 * Telugu:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Danish: åbne på klem
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: résnyire kinyit
 * Icelandic: setja rifu á
 * Ingrian: longuttaa
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: одшкринути
 * Roman:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:, ,


 * Danish: knække, løse
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: leysa
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: knække
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ; (slang)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: pléasc
 * Italian:, schioccare,
 * Maori: tākiri, pakō
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: murjaista
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: fare una battuta
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:, ; , krakkautua
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian: ,


 * Danish: knække, omgå
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,


 * Danish: åbne på klem
 * Finnish: sihauttaa, posauttaa ;
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Danish: blære sig
 * Finnish:


 * Danish: gå fallit
 * Finnish:, mennä nurin


 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:, , ,

Noun

 * 1)  A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
 * 2) A narrow opening.
 * 3) A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
 * , a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
 * 1)  Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
 * 2)  The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
 * 3)  Any sharp sound.
 * 4) A sharp, resounding blow.
 * 5)  An attempt at something.
 * 6)  The vagina.
 * 7)  The space between the buttocks.
 * 8)   Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
 * 9) * 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
 * "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
 * 1)  Business; events; news.
 * 2)  A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
 * 3)  An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.Crossroads baker explosion.jpg
 * 4)  a meaningful chat.
 * 5)  Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
 * 6) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
 * 7)   A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
 * 8)  A crazy or crack-brained person.
 * 9)  A boast; boasting.
 * 10)  Breach of chastity.
 * 11)  A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
 * 12)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  The space between the buttocks.
 * 2)   Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
 * 3) * 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
 * "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
 * 1)  Business; events; news.
 * 2)  A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
 * 3)  An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.Crossroads baker explosion.jpg
 * 4)  a meaningful chat.
 * 5)  Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
 * 6) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
 * 7)   A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
 * 8)  A crazy or crack-brained person.
 * 9)  A boast; boasting.
 * 10)  Breach of chastity.
 * 11)  A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
 * 12)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  a meaningful chat.
 * 2)  Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
 * 3) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
 * 4)   A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
 * 5)  A crazy or crack-brained person.
 * 6)  A boast; boasting.
 * 7)  Breach of chastity.
 * 8)  A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
 * 9)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  A boast; boasting.
 * 2)  Breach of chastity.
 * 3)  A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
 * 4)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
 * 2)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
 * 1)  A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

Usage notes

 * In recent decades, the word has been adopted into Gaelic as.

Synonyms

 * crack, arse crack , ass crack

Translations

 * Arabic: صَدْع
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ফাট, ফাঁক
 * Azerbaijani: çatlaq
 * Bashkir: ярыҡ
 * Belarusian: трэ́шчына, раско́ліна
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: trhlina,, puklina
 * Danish: sprække
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: krako
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: laña, fenda, rachón, regaña
 * Georgian: ბზარი
 * German:, , ,
 * Alemannic German: Chlack
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ῥωχμός, χηραμός
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sprunga
 * Ingrian: rako, lovi
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kikuyu: mwatũka
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: درز
 * Latgalian: škāla, pleisums, spruogste
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: plaisa
 * Macedonian: пукнатина, цеп
 * Malay:
 * Middle English: chyne
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Retz
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пукотина
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: prasklina, puklina, trhlina, škára
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: трі́щина
 * Uzbek:
 * Votic: śaro
 * Yiddish: שפּאַלט


 * Bashkir: ярыҡ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, mezírka,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: laño, fenda
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:, rifa
 * Ingrian: rako, lovi, lonka
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: пукнатина, процеп
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: саркастична забележка
 * Czech:, , fórek
 * Finnish:, , murjaisu, lohkaisu
 * French: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Macedonian: досетка
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: uštipačná poznámka komentár (ironically)
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: prasknutí, křupnutí, rupnutí
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: brestur
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قرتە
 * Macedonian: цеп, пукање
 * Plautdietsch: Krach
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: prasknutie
 * Spanish:


 * Esperanto: krako
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: pléasc
 * Italian:, , , , picchiettio
 * Plautdietsch: Krach
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: pragu
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: fenda
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish: szparka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: fendello, raigada
 * Icelandic: skora, rassaskora
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:, turina
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 크랙
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:


 * German:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:, vilaus
 * French:


 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:, (1, 2), ,

Etymology 2
Of origin.

Adjective

 * 1) Highly trained and competent.
 * 2) Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
 * 1) Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

Noun

 * 1)   One who excels; the best.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician: crack
 * German:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) crack variety of cocaine

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  champion, ace, expert
 * 2)   program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions
 * 1)   program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions
 * 1)   program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions

Noun

 * 1) crack cocaine

Etymology
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Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) crack cocaine
 * 2) champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude outstanding person

Etymology 2
, from.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  crack cocaine