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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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