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crack-a-lacking

crack-a-lacking is the alternative form of crackalackin'.

Meaning of crackalackin'

Verb

crackalackin'

  1. (Canada, US, slang) Happening; doing; occurring; working.
    • What’s poppin’ wit’chu? What’s happenin’? What’s crackalackin’? How you mackin’? You still bad actin’?2003, “Let Me Hear Sumn”, in Love & Hate, performed by Edwin Hayes (Aceyalone)

Questions about crack-a-lacking

What is crack-a-lacking the alternative form of?
Crack-a-lacking is the alternative form of crackalackin'.

Words near crack-a-lacking in the dictionary

  1. crack'd
  2. crack-a-jack
  3. crack-a-jacks
  4. crack-a-lackin
  5. crack-a-lackin'
  6. crack-a-lacking
  7. crack-back
  8. crack-backs
  9. crack-brained
  10. crack-hemp
  11. crack-hemps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crack-a-lacking (page history and authors); crackalackin' (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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