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say it: krak
crack is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "become fractured; break or crack on the surface only". It carries 24 recorded senses.
hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
“The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler”
pass through (a barrier)
“Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county”
gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
“she cracked my password”
“crack a safe”
a long narrow depression in a surface
a chance to do something
“he wanted a shot at the champion”
colloquialism
a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crack come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.