English Dictionary

crack

/kɹæk/

noun

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. / A narrow opening. / A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

I heard a loud crack coming from the tree.

意味（1）

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

A large crack had formed in the roadway.

意味（2）

A narrow opening.

We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.

意味（3）

A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.

意味（4）

(slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

意味（5）

(figuratively, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.

kitty crack ― catnip

意味（6）

(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

意味（7）

(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.

The crack of the bat hitting the ball.

意味（8）

A sharp, resounding blow.

Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having fetched young Piper a crack, renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.

意味（9）

(informal) An attempt at something.

I'd like to take a crack at that game.

意味（10）

(vulgar, slang) Vagina.

I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack.

意味（11）

(informal) The space between the buttocks.

Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.

意味（12）

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.

The party was great crack.

意味（13）

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.

What's the crack?

意味（14）

(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

意味（15）

(hydrodynamics, US, dated) 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.

Coordinate term: slick

意味（16）

(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.

意味（17）

(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

意味（18）

The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground

意味（19）

(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

He has a crack.

意味（20）

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.

On the London Cries […] I have lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject […] ‘Sir, […], but I cannot get the parliament to listen to me ; who look upon me, forsooth, as a crack and a projector […] I am, SIR, &c. / RALPH CROTCHET’

意味（21）

(obsolete) A boast; boasting.

Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes

意味（22）

(obsolete) Breach of chastity.

But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt.

意味（23）

(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

The ſame Sir Iohn, the very ſame: I ſaw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […]

意味（24）

(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

I'll be with you in a crack.