To form cracks.
It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A large crack had formed in the roadway.
Highly trained and competent.
Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
She's a crack shot with that rifle.
A surname
From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto...
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A narrow opening.
We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.
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.