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Crack v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.]
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.
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.]
Cracked a.
1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
2. Crack-brained. [Colloq.]
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cracked
adj 1: used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure;
"chapped lips" [syn: chapped, roughened]
2: broken without being divided into parts but having fissures
appear on the surface; "a cracked mirror"
3: of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
[syn: alligatored]
4: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty,
bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity,
haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]