cracke
cracke is the obsolete form of crack.
Meaning of crack
Noun
crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- A narrow opening.
- We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
- 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
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe.
- crack head
- Something pleasurable (good-tasting or appealing) and habit-forming.
- kitty crack
Forms of cracke
| plural | crackes |
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Questions about cracke
- What is cracke the obsolete form of?
- Cracke is the obsolete form of crack.
Words near cracke in the dictionary
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