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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\ (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cracked}
(kr[a^]kt); p. pr & vb n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken,
craken, to crack, break, boast, AS cracian cearcian to
crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen cf Skr. garj to
rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf {Crake},
{Cracknel}, {Creak}.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of
the parts as to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow;
hence to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were
cracked. --Roscommon.
3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as to
crack a whip.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as to crack a joke.
--B. Jonson
5. To cry up to extol; -- followed by up [Low]
{To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its
contents.
{To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang]
{To crack on}, to put on as to crack on more sail, or more
steam. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, v. i.
1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without
quite separating into parts
By misfortune it cracked in the coling. --Boyle.
The mirror cracked from side to side --Tennyson.
2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail [Collog.]
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little
comes in and much goes out --Dryden.
3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak.
4. To utter vain, pompous words to brag; to boast; -- with
of [Archaic.]
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, n.
1. 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.
2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
--Shak.
3. 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.
Will the stretch out to the crack of doom? --Shak.
4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack.
--Shak.
5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as
he has a crack.
6. A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.]
I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me
who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
--Addison.
7. A boast; boasting. [Obs.] ``Crack and brags.'' --Burton.
``Vainglorius cracks.'' --Spenser.
8. Breach of chastity. [Obs.] --Shak.
9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.]
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.
--Shak.
10. A brief time; an instant; as to be with one in a crack.
[Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]
11. Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.]
What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a
chat with a good, kindly human heart in it --P. P.
Alexander.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\, a.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of
[Colloq.]
One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
crack
adj : (informal) of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a
crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party";
"played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop
condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: {ace}, {A-one},
{first-rate}, {super}, {tiptop}, {topnotch}, {tops(p)}]
n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: {cleft}, {crevice}, {fissure}, {scissure}]
2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: {gap}]
3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: {crevice}, {cranny},
{fissure}, {chap}]
4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice" [syn: {cracking}]
5: (informal) a chance to do something "he wanted a shot at
the champion" [syn: {shot}]
6: witty remark [syn: {wisecrack}, {sally}, {quip}]
7: a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken
off of something [syn: {check}, {chip}]
8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted
9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: {fling}, {go}, {pass}, {whirl}, {offer}]
10: the act of cracking something [syn: {fracture}, {cracking}]
v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The
glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: {check}, {break}]
2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
3: as of tightly stretched ropes or fingers [syn: {snap}]
4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise:
"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
5: pass through as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked
through the 30,000 mark in the county" [syn: {break
through}]
6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
7: break suddenly and abruptly; as of something under tension;
"The rope snapped" [syn: {snap}]
8: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: {crack up}, {crock up}, {break
up}, {collapse}]
9: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of
the leather chair"
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
crack [warez d00dz] 1. v. To break into a system (compare
{cracker}). 2. v. Action of removing the copy protection from a commercial
program. People who write cracks consider themselves challenged by the
copy protection measures. They will often do it as much to show that
they are smarter than the developper who designed the copy protection
scheme than to actually copy the program. 3. n. A program, instructions
or patch used to remove the copy protection of a program or to uncripple
features from a demo/time limited program. 4. An {exploit}.
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