cracks
/kɹæks/noun
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A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
Example: A large crack had formed in the roadway.
A narrow opening.
Example: Open the door a crack.
A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
Example: I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
Example: crack head
verb
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To form cracks.
Example: It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
To break apart under pressure.
Example: When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
Example: Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
Example: When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.