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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
- Highly trained and competent.
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Noun:
- A narrow opening.
- A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- computing A program, password or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- elsewhere throughout the North of the UK a meaningful chat.
- Scots|Liverpudlian Business/events
- informal An opportunity to attempt something.
- Internet slang Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- informal|Liverpudlian good fun. (See usage note re Scots sense).
- onomatopoeia Any sharp sound.
- onomatopoeia The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- common in lowland Scotland and Ulster Conviviality; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.
- slang vagina.
- vulgar The space between the buttocks.
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Verb:
- intransitive To form cracks.
- intransitive To make a cracking sound.
- of a pubescent boy's voice To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- of a voice To change rapidly in register.
- intransitive To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- intransitive To break apart under pressure.
- intransitive To make a sharply humorous comment.
- intransitive To yield under interrogation.
- chemistry|informal To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- computing To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- informal To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- transitive To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- transitive To cause to make a sharp sound.
- transitive To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (''Figurative'')
- transitive To make a crack or cracks in.
- transitive To open slightly.
- transitive To overcome a security system or a component.
- Figurative, from cracking a nut.
- transitive To strike forcefully.
- transitive To tell (a joke).
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