crack
krak
- n a long narrow opening
- n a narrow opening
he opened the window a crack - n a long narrow depression in a surface
- n a sudden sharp noise
the crack of a whip
he heard the cracking of the ice - n a chance to do something
- n witty remark
- n a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
there was a crack in the mirror - n a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- n a usually brief attempt
he took a crack at it - n the act of cracking something
- v become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
The glass cracked when it was heated - v make a very sharp explosive sound
His gun cracked - v make a sharp sound
- v hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler - v pass through (a barrier)
Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county - v break partially but keep its integrity
The glass cracked - v break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- v gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
she cracked my password
crack a safe - v suffer a nervous breakdown
- v tell spontaneously
crack a joke - v cause to become cracked
heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair - v reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- v break into simpler molecules by means of heat
The petroleum cracked - s of the highest quality
a crack shot
- Damaged by the drugs their mothers took, crack kids will face social and educational hurdles and must count on society's compassion.
- The whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands,.
- The use and trafficking of crack have long been treated more harshly than the same offenses for powder cocaine.