Word Meaning

Meaning of "crack" and the crossword clue

- Break open
- Break sharply
- Crevice
- Decipher (code)
- Fracture
- Highly skilled
- Split in classic racket
- Understand
- 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.