Overview of verb crack

The verb crack has 13 senses

• crack, check, break -- (become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated")


• crack -- (make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked")


• snap, crack -- (make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped")


• crack -- (hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler")


• break through, crack -- (pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county")


• crack -- (break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked")


• snap, crack -- (break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped")


• crack -- (gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe")


• crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse -- (suffer a nervous breakdown)


• crack -- (tell spontaneously; "crack a joke")


• crack -- (cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair")


• crack -- (reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking)


• crack -- (break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked")

Overview of adj cracked

The adj cracked has 3 senses

• chapped, cracked, roughened -- (used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips")


• alligatored, cracked -- (of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide)


• balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky -- (informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy")