Crack
To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
A crazy or crack-brained person.
A boast; boasting.
Breach of chastity.
A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
Free conversation; friendly chat.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
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Crack Quotations
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Spurgeon
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Orlando Bloom
I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?
Denis Leary
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
Adam Sandler
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
Maureen O'Hara
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
Kid Rock
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
David Knopfler
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Margot Kidder
I always wake up at the crack of ice.
Joe E. Lewis
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio
I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
Tom Waits
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Jesse Ventura
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
Bernhard Langer
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
Brad Paisley
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch Daniels
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
Sophia Bush
So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
Ewan McGregor
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
Shia LaBeouf
I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
Mark Ruffalo
I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Crack Translations
crack in Dutch is barst
crack in French is croustiller, fissure, craquement, fracas, craquer
crack in Italian is sciogliere, crepatura, schiacciare
crack in Latin is fragor
crack in Portuguese is rachadura
crack in Spanish is crujir, solucionar, hendedura, raja, crujido
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