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Meaning of ‘crack’
24 definitions found.
the act of cracking something
Synonyms: fracture
a usually brief attempt
Example: "The manager took a crack at the problem their employee had been working at."
Synonyms: pass
a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
Synonyms: crack cocaine tornado
a narrow opening
Example: "I opened the window a crack to let the smoke escape."
Synonyms: gap
a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
Example: "there was a crack in the mirror"
witty remark
Synonyms: sally
a sudden sharp noise
Example: "the crack of a whip"
Synonyms: snap
a long narrow opening
Synonyms: cleft
a long narrow depression in a surface
Synonyms: chap fissure crevice cranny
a chance to do something
Synonyms: shot
to break into simpler molecules by means of heat
Example: "The petroleum cracked"
to reduce petroleum to a simpler compound by cracking
to become fractured
Example: "The screen cracked on my phone."
Synonyms: fracture
to cause to become cracked
Example: "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
to break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
Synonyms: snap
to break partially but keep its integrity
Example: "The glass cracked."
to pass through a barrier
Example: "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
Synonyms: break through
to tell spontaneously
Example: "crack a joke"
to hit forcefully
Example: "My hard tackle cracked the opponent's helmet."
to suffer a nervous breakdown
Example: "After weeks of stressful work, I finally cracked."
Synonyms: collapse
to make a sharp sound
Synonyms: snap
to make a very sharp explosive sound
Example: "Their gun cracked."
to gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
Example: "You cracked my password."
of the highest quality
Synonyms: super
Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University
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