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crack a crib

crack a crib verb: to break into a house.

Verb

crack a crib (third-person singular simple present cracks a crib, present participle cracking a crib, simple past and past participle cracked a crib)

  1. (dated, crime slang) To break into a house.
    • He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
    • Here in Macedonia I learned that honey is not so successful as one believes, that no bee ever realizes its full intention, and that the perfumer is a clumsy bungler who never cracks the fragile crib he covets, by approaching a town built in the Turkish manner, with a multitude of little gardens, at...1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 795

Forms of crack a crib

third-person singular presentcracks a crib
present participlecracking a crib
past participlecracked a crib
pastcracked a crib

Questions about crack a crib

What does crack a crib mean?
Crack a crib means to break into a house.
What part of speech is crack a crib?
Crack a crib is a verb.
What is the past tense of crack a crib?
The past tense of crack a crib is cracked a crib.

Words near crack a crib in the dictionary

  1. crachachs
  2. cracid
  3. cracids
  4. crack
  5. crack a book
  6. crack a crib
  7. crack a crust
  8. crack a fat
  9. crack a rat
  10. crack a smile
  11. crack along

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