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cracke

cracke is the obsolete form of crack.

Meaning of crack

Noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

  1. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
    • A large crack had formed in the roadway.
    Synonyms:
    crevice, fissure
  2. A narrow opening.
    • We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
  3. (figuratively, slang) A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
    • I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
  4. (figuratively, slang, uncommon) A flaw, weakness, setback, or insecurity.
    • It’s a fact all those cracks they can hold you back / But there’s a better way (there’s a better way) / Just keep on pushing, keep on pushing, keep on pushing / For a brighter day1978, Shalamar, “Leave It All Up to Love”, in Disco Gardens
  5. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe.
    • crack head
  6. (broadly, figuratively, humorous, slang) Something pleasurable (good-tasting or appealing) and habit-forming.
    • kitty crack

See all 57 meanings of crack

Forms of cracke

pluralcrackes

Questions about cracke

What is cracke the obsolete form of?
Cracke is the obsolete form of crack.

Words near cracke in the dictionary

  1. crackbrained
  2. crackbrainedness
  3. crackbrains
  4. crackdown
  5. crackdowns
  6. cracke
  7. cracked
  8. cracked a book
  9. cracked a crust
  10. cracked a fat
  11. cracked a rat

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