Crack

  • 111crack up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill. [INFORMAL] [V P] She would have cracked up if she hadn t allowed herself some fun. Syn: go to pieces 2) PHRASAL VERB If you crack… …

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  • 112crack —    1. to rob    By forcible entry of a building or specifically by cracking a safe, an art in which a cracksman specializes.    2. to hit or kill    Not necessarily with a blow that damages the skull:     I figure you cracked him in anger. (Turow …

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  • 113crack n — Say No to crack …

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  • 114crack on — Brit. informal proceed or progress quickly. → crack …

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  • 115crack up — informal I feel as if I m about to crack up Syn: break down, have a breakdown, lose control, go to pieces, go out of one s mind, go mad; informal lose it, fall/come apart at the seams, go crazy, freak out …

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  • 116crack on — Verb. To progress, to go quickly. E.g. We ll crack on with the meeting after lunch. Cf. get cracking …

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  • 117crack — v 1. snap, pop, clap, go bang; boom, crash, clash, explode, thunder, detonate, fulminate. 2. break, crackle, craze, chap; fracture, fragmentize, chip, break off, splinter, shiver, shatter, smash, burst; break or snap in two, split, cleave, sunder …

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  • 118ˌcrack (sb) ˈup — phrasal verb to suddenly laugh a lot at something, or to make someone laugh a lot Little kids crack me up with the things they say.[/ex] …

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  • 119crack —   1. Aperture. Māwae. Also; nakaka, owā, owā owā, weke, wekeweke, akaka, ōwae, ho onahā, makili; pūahilo (skin); lepeulu, muaiwa (in wood).    ♦ To crack, kīkē, kīmō, kīpō (as nuts); naka (as earth).   2. Noise. U ina (as a gun); kani a ina, ko… …

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  • 120crack — 1. n. an attempt; a try; a go. Let me have a crack at it. 2. n. break down; fail 3. n. joke; bad joke 4. v. break into (a safe or strong box, for example). He cracked that safe in three minutes. 5. n. the line between each side of the buttocks …

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