crack
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Is crack a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To form cracks.Examples: "It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.Examples: "When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.Examples: "Anyone would crack after being hounded like that."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.Examples: "When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked."intransitive
5. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.Examples: "The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six."intransitive
6. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.Examples: "His voice cracked with emotion."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.Examples: "crack head"; "And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama"; "There were times when she could tell the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like crack or ice while she was pregnant with him."Synonyms: crack rock, hardcountableslanguncountable
2. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.Examples: "kitty crack"; "When did naming foods after a powerful narcotic become a thing?[…]Now the mean streets of New York are rife with “salted crack caramel” ice cream, “pistachio crack” brittle, “crack steak” sandwiches, and “tuna on crack.”"Synonyms: crack rock, hardcountablefigurativelyhumorousslanguncountable
3. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.Examples: "The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles."Synonyms: pop, snap, clack, click, clunk, crack, snap, popcountableonomatopoeicuncountable
4. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.Examples: "The crack of the bat hitting the ball."; "She broke to love in the opening game, only for Bartoli to hit straight back in game two, which was interrupted by a huge crack of thunder that made Lisicki jump and prompted nervous laughter from the 15,000 spectators."countableonomatopoeicuncountable
5. (informal) An attempt at something.Examples: "I'd like to take a crack at that game."countableinformaluncountable
6. (vulgar, slang) The vagina.Examples: "I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack."Synonyms: crevice, gash, axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, boxcountableslanguncountablevulgar
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.Examples: "Stanton had at one time a reputation for inaccessibility, but that has long since become a thing of the past, […] So that the gallops of the cracks' can, in most cases, be regularly watched and their daily doings truthfully chronicled."; "1st Gent. What dost think, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary