Noun
- 1. crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure, opening, gap
- usage: a long narrow opening
- 2. gap, crack, opening
- usage: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack"
- 3. crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap, depression, impression, imprint
- usage: a long narrow depression in a surface
- 4. crack, cracking, snap, noise
- usage: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
- 5. shot, crack, opportunity, chance
- usage: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
- 6. wisecrack, crack, sally, quip, remark, comment, input
- usage: witty remark
- 7. crack, blemish, defect, mar
- usage: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
- 8. crack, crack cocaine, tornado, cocaine, cocain
- usage: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- 9. crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer, attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
- usage: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
- 10. fracture, crack, cracking, breakage, break, breaking
- usage: the act of cracking something
Verb
- 1. crack, check, break, change
- usage: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
- 2. crack, sound, go
- usage: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
- 3. snap, crack, sound, go
- usage: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
- 4. crack, hit
- usage: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
- 5. break through, crack, pass, go through, go across
- usage: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
- 6. crack, crack, check, break
- usage: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
- 7. snap, crack, break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
- usage: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped"
- 8. crack, break in, break
- usage: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
- 9. crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse, suffer, sustain, have, get
- usage: suffer a nervous breakdown
- 10. crack, tell, narrate, recount, recite
- usage: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
- 11. crack, change, alter, modify
- usage: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
- 12. crack, decompose, break up, break down
- usage: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- 13. crack, change
- usage: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
Adjective
- 1. ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(predicate), superior (vs. inferior)
- usage: 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"
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