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cracking out

cracking out is the present participle and gerund of crack out.

Meaning of crack out

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To show signs or symptoms of excessive crack cocaine use.
    • Look over there. That kid is cracking out.
  2. (slang, transitive) To intoxicate through the administration of crack cocaine.
  3. (broadly, slang, transitive) To intoxicate, similar to a crack high, through administration of a comparable substance.
    • Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, Morgan Spurlock.
      "So part of the reason why this is the fastest growing chain is because their cracking us out on MSG"
  4. (UK, slang, transitive) To bring out a tool or method thought to be powerful or effective.
    • Time to crack out your new super-jump ability and finally beat this level.
    Synonyms:
    break out, bust out

Questions about cracking out

What is cracking out the present participle and gerund of?
Cracking out is the present participle and gerund of crack out.

Words near cracking out in the dictionary

  1. cracking off
  2. cracking on
  3. cracking one off
  4. cracking onto
  5. cracking open
  6. cracking out
  7. cracking someone's egg
  8. cracking the flags
  9. cracking through
  10. cracking up
  11. cracking wise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cracking out (page history and authors); crack out (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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