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crack   (TTS Sound)

The noun crack has 10 senses

• crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure -- (a long narrow opening)


• gap, crack -- (a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack")


• crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap -- (a long narrow depression in a surface)


• crack, cracking, snap -- (a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig")


• shot, crack -- (a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion")


• wisecrack, crack, sally, quip -- (witty remark)


• crack -- (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror")


• crack, crack cocaine, tornado -- (a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive)


• crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer -- (a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl")


• fracture, crack, cracking -- (the act of cracking something)

The verb crack has 13 senses

• crack, check, break -- (become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated")


• crack -- (make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked")


• snap, crack -- (make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped")


• crack -- (hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler")


• break through, crack -- (pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county")


• crack -- (break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked")


• snap, crack -- (break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped")


• crack -- (gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe")


• crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse -- (suffer a nervous breakdown)


• crack -- (tell spontaneously; "crack a joke")


• crack -- (cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair")


• crack -- (reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking)


• crack -- (break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked")

The adj crack has 1 sense

• ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops -- (of the highest quality; "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")