crack

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kɹæk/    美 /kɹæk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse. obsolete
    — Stanton had at one time a reputation for inaccessibility, but that has long since become a thing of the past, […] So that the gallops of the cracks' can, in most cases, be regularly watched and their daily doings truthfully chronicled.
  2. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. countable,uncountable
    — A large crack had formed in the roadway.
  3. A narrow opening. countable,uncountable
    — We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
  4. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. countable,uncountable
    — I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
  5. Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe. countable,slang,uncountable
    — crack head
  6. Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.; Something good-tasting or habit-forming. countable,figuratively,humorous,slang,uncountable
    — kitty crack
    catnip
  7. The sharp sound made when solid material breaks. countable,onomatopoeic,uncountable
    — The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
  8. Any sharp sound. countable,onomatopoeic,uncountable
    — The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
  9. A sharp, resounding blow. countable,uncountable
    — Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
  10. An attempt at something. countable,informal,uncountable
    — I'd like to take a crack at that game.
  11. The vagina. countable,slang,uncountable,vulgar
    — I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack.
  12. The space between the buttocks. countable,informal,uncountable
    — Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
  13. Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company. Ireland,Northern-England,Scotland,countable,uncountable
    — The party was great crack.
  14. A chat. Cumbria,Northern-UK,countable,uncountable
    — And when he come down in the evenings, he’d drop in every night to have a crack wi’ Old Bob.
  15. Business; events; news. Ireland,Northern-England,Scotland,countable,uncountable
    — What's the crack?
  16. A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software. countable,uncountable
    — Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
  17. An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water. US,countable,dated,uncountable
  18. Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose. Internet,countable,uncountable
  19. The tone of voice when changed at puberty. countable,uncountable
    — And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground
  20. A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — He has a crack.
  21. A crazy or crack-brained person. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — On the London Cries […] I have lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject […] ‘Sir, […], but I cannot get the parliament to listen to me ; who look upon me, forsooth, as a crack and a projector […] I am, SIR, &c. / RALPH CROTCHET’
  22. A boast; boasting. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes
  23. Breach of chastity. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt.
  24. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The ſame Sir Iohn, the very ſame: I ſaw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […]
  25. A brief time; an instant; a jiffy. UK,countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — I'll be with you in a crack.
  26. The act of hitting on someone. countable,dated,uncountable
    — The eyes of my sisters who fear my crack^* [footnote] Before the popularization of the term "crack" as a drug, its common usage in the Black community referred to men publicly cruising and approaching women.
  27. Dry firewood. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To form cracks. intransitive
    — It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
  2. To break apart under force, stress, or pressure. intransitive
    — When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
  3. To become debilitated by psychological pressure. intransitive
    — Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
  4. To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. intransitive
    — When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
  5. To make a cracking sound. intransitive
    — The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
  6. To change rapidly in register. intransitive
    — His voice cracked with emotion.
  7. To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. intransitive
    — His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
  8. To make a sharply humorous comment. intransitive
    — "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
  9. To realize that one is transgender. intransitive
    — She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.
  10. To make a crack or cracks in. transitive
    — The ball cracked the window.
  11. To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. transitive
    — You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
  12. To strike forcefully. transitive
    — She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
  13. To open slightly. transitive
    — Could you please crack the window?
  14. To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. figuratively,transitive
    — They managed to crack him on the third day.
  15. To solve a difficult problem. figuratively,transitive
    — I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
  16. To overcome a security system or component. transitive
    — It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
  17. To cause to make a sharp sound. transitive
    — to crack a whip
  18. To tell (a joke). transitive
    — The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
  19. To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. transitive
    — Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
  20. To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. transitive
    — That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
  21. To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. informal,transitive
    — I'd love to crack open a beer.
  22. To brag; to boast. obsolete
    — To whom the boaſter, that all knights did blot, / With proud diſdaine did ſcornefull anſwere make; […] And further did vncomely ſpeaches crake.
  23. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. archaic,colloquial
    — The credit[…]of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
  24. To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent). colloquial
    — An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100
  25. To have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.
    — Did you hear about Josh cracking Stacy in the school hall?
  26. To have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.; To have sex. usually
    — i shifted to crack him. i cracked him real good in my dr.
形容词 adj.
  1. Highly trained and competent. not-comparable
    — Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
  2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch. not-comparable
    — She's a crack shot with that rifle.

词形变化

cracks present,singular,third-person cracking participle,present cracked participle,past cracked past cracks plural cracks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *gerg-der.
Proto-West Germanic *krakōn
Old English cracian
Middle English crakken
English crack
From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gi̇̀rgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
Compare typologically English crevice (<< Latin crepō), Bulgarian пукнатина (puknatina) (akin to пу́кам (púkam)), Russian тре́щина (tréščina) (akin to треск (tresk)), щель (ščelʹ) (akin to щёлкать (ščólkatʹ)).
词源 2
Slang first attested 1793, perhaps from the verb in the sense of doing something quickly or with intelligence, or in the sense of "speaking boastingly" and having something to be proud of.
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