A Crack
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- A narrow opening.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
- (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
- (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
- (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
- (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
| Usage notes |
(Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster, conviviality): In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling craic has been devised.
| Synonyms |
(vulgar: space between the buttocks): bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US)
(cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation): crack cocaine
(A crazy or crack-brained person): crackpot