7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\ (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cracked}
(kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken,
craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to
crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to
rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crake},
{Cracknel}, {Creak}.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of
the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow;
hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were
cracked. --Roscommon.
3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to
crack a whip.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
--B. Jonson.
5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]
{To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its
contents.
{To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang]
{To crack on}, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more
steam. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, v. i.
1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without
quite separating into parts.
By misfortune it cracked in the coling. --Boyle.
The mirror cracked from side to side. --Tennyson.
2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little
comes in and much goes out. --Dryden.
3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak.
4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with
of. [Archaic.]
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, n.
1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a
perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach;
a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in
glass.
2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
--Shak.
3. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything
suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling
house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
Will the stretch out to the crack of doom? --Shak.
4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack.
--Shak.
5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as,
he has a crack.
6. A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.]
I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me,
who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
--Addison.
7. A boast; boasting. [Obs.] ``Crack and brags.'' --Burton.
``Vainglorius cracks.'' --Spenser.
8. Breach of chastity. [Obs.] --Shak.
9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.]
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.
--Shak.
10. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
[Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]
11. Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.]
What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a
chat with a good, kindly human heart in it. --P. P.
Alexander.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, a.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
[Colloq.]
One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crack
adj : 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" [syn: {ace}, {A-one}, {first-rate},
{super}, {tiptop}, {topnotch}, {tops(p)}]
n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: {cleft}, {crevice}, {fissure}, {scissure}]
2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: {gap}]
3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: {crevice}, {cranny},
{fissure}, {chap}]
4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
[syn: {cracking}, {snap}]
5: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
[syn: {shot}]
6: witty remark [syn: {wisecrack}, {sally}, {quip}]
7: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation
of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted [syn: {tornado}]
9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: {fling}, {go}, {pass}, {whirl}, {offer}]
10: the act of cracking something [syn: {fracture}, {cracking}]
v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The
glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: {check}, {break}]
2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
3: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: {snap}]
4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise;
"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
5: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the
30,000 mark in the county" [syn: {break through}]
6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
7: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The rope
snapped" [syn: {snap}]
8: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: {crack up}, {crock up}, {break
up}, {collapse}]
9: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
10: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of
the leather chair"
11: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
12: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The
petroleum cracked"
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
crack [warez d00dz] 1. v. To break into a system (compare {cracker}).
2. v. Action of removing the copy protection from a commercial program.
People who write cracks consider themselves challenged by the copy
protection measures. They will often do it as much to show that they are
smarter than the developer who designed the copy protection scheme than
to actually copy the program. 3. n. A program, instructions or patch
used to remove the copy protection of a program or to uncripple features
from a demo/time limited program. 4. An {exploit}.
From eng-fra [engfra]:
crack
[kræk]
craquer
craquement