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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n? (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).

Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžd?ti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian ?????? (karka??), Sanskrit ?????? (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).

Verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)

2. (intransitive) To form cracks.

   It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.

3. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.

   When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

4. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

   Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

5. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

   When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

6. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.

   The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

7. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

   His voice cracked with emotion.

8. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

   His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

9. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.

   "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

10. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.

    The ball cracked the window.

11. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

    You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

12. (transitive) To strike forcefully.

    She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

13. (transitive) To open slightly.

    Could you please crack the window?

14. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

    They managed to crack him on the third day.

15. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)

    I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

16. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.

    It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.

    They finally cracked the code.

17. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.

    to crack a whip
18. (transitive) To tell (a joke).

    The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

19. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

    Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

20. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

    That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

21. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

    I'd love to crack open a beer.

    Let's crack a tube and watch the game.

    • 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.

22. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
23. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

    • The credit […] of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.

Derived terms

Related terms

• crazed (exhibiting fine-line cracks)

Translations

See also

• hack

Noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

2. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

3. A narrow opening.
4. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

5. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
   1. (figuratively, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
6. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

7. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
8. A sharp, resounding blow.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

     Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.

9. (informal) An attempt at something.

10. (vulgar, slang) Vagina.

11. (informal) The space between the buttocks; the buttcrack.

12. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) 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"

    • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

      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!

13. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.

    What's this crack about a possible merger.

14. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

15. (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
16. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
17. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
18. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
    • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 2

      And let us, Polydore, though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground, …

19. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

20. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
21. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
22. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
    • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5

      But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd, I having ta'en the forfeit. …

23. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
24. (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

Coordinate terms

• (phenomenon from underwater explosion): slick

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

1793 slang, of Unknown origin

Adjective

crack (not comparable)

1. Highly trained and competent.

2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

Derived terms

• crack train
• crack troops

Related terms

• crackerjack

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From English crack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kræk/, [?kræk]

Noun

crack

1. crack (variety of cocaine)

Declension

French

Etymology

From English crack.

Noun

crack f (plural cracks)

1. crack (expert person)

crack f (uncountable)

1. crack (cocaine)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English crack.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

1. crack (variety of cocaine)
2. crack (computer program for bypassing license-related and other restrictions)

Further reading

• “crack” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology 1

From English crack.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

1. crack (variety of cocaine)
2. champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (outstanding person)

Etymology 2

From English crash influenced by crack and crac.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

1. Alternative form of crac

Further reading

• “crack” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slut?. Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”), Dutch slot.

The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
5. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
6. (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsolete, transitive, Britain, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.

   to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
2. A period of time within a schedule or sequence.

   I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
4. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
5. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
6. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

7. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

8. (slang) The vagina.
9. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 216[2]:

     The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
10. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

Derived terms

• slotwise
• slot-hound

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
3. To put something where it belongs.
4. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
5. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
6. (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Derived terms

• slot in

See also

• close
• sluice

Anagrams

• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German slot (“bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”); cognate with German Schloss (“lock, castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sl?d?]

Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle, palace, manor house

Inflection

Derived terms

• sandslot

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Hyphenation: slot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

1. lock (something used for fastening)
2. castle
3. end, conclusion

Synonyms

• (castle): kasteel, burcht
• (end): eind, einde

Derived terms

• (lock): op slot
• (castle): slotgracht, slottoren
• (end): tenslotte, ten slotte, slotpleidooi, slotrede

Related terms

• sleutel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: slot
• ? Indonesian: selot

Anagrams

• lost, stol