crack

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To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
To down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
To make a cracking sound.
To change rapidly in register.
To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
To make a sharply humorous comment.
To make a crack or cracks in.
To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
To strike forcefully.
To open slightly.
To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
To solve a difficult problem.
(quote-journal)
To overcome a security system or component.
To cause to make a sharp sound.
(quote-book)
To tell (a joke).
To down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
1894, ''The Strand'' (volume 8, page 569)

Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.

To brag; to boast.
{{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene |year=1596.2 |book=V |canto=III |stanza=16 |page=216
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)
{{RQ:Burton Melancholy|part=I|section=2|member=3|subsection=14|page=126|chapter=Cauſes of Melancholy. Vaine-glory, Pride, Ioy, Praiſe, &c.
{{RQ:Burton Melancholy|part=II|section=4|member=1|subsection=v|chapter=Cure of Melancholy. Simple alternatives. Compound Alternatiues, Cenſure of Compounds and mixt Phyſick.
To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(RQ:Dryden Virgil)

The credit(..)of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.

(senseid) A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A narrow opening.
A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
(senseid) cocaine|Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
(quote-song)
Something good-tasting or habit-forming.

(uxi)

(quote-journal)Now the mean streets of New York are rife with “salted crack caramel” ice cream, “pistachio crack” brittle, “crack steak” sandwiches, and “tuna on crack.”|brackets=on
The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
Any sharp sound.
A sharp, resounding blow.
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House)
An attempt at something.
Vagina.
(RQ:Miller Clichy)
The space between the buttocks.

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Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
2001, William F. Gray, ''The Villain'', iUniverse, p. 214:

Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.

2004, Bill Griffiths, ''Dictionary of North East Dialect'', Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)

"his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"

By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Business; events; news.
A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the wave through the air above the water.File:Crossroads baker explosion.jpg|thumb|A nuclear explosion in shallow water; the crack is clearly visible on the water's surface.

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a meaningful chat.
Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
(senseid) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
A crazy or crack-brained person.
{{RQ:Spectator | volume = III | issue = 251 | date = 18 December 1711 |pages = 251-256 | pageref = 252
A boast; boasting.
{{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|book=II|canto=XI|stanza=10|page=350
Breach of chastity.
A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Highly trained and competent.
Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)
(senseid) One who excels; the best.
(quote-book)|section=act IV, scene iii|page=236|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013166347/page/n273/mode/1up|passage=''1st Gent.'' What dost think, Jockey? / ''2nd Gent.'' The crack o' the field's against you.
crack (variety of cocaine)
champion, ace, expert
crack (gloss)
cocaine
(l) (gloss)
champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (gloss)
(alternative form of)
cocaine