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crack
noun- crystalline lumps of concentrated cocaine US, 1985
- When cocaine got too expensive for the ‘hood, crack was invented. Now brothers with fourth-grade educations go down into their basements and become mad scientists. — Chris Rock, Rock This!, p. 68, 1997
- The simple technique used in the preparation of crack consists of heating cocaine hydrochloride in a baking soda and water solution[.] — Richard Rudgley, The Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive Substances, p. 69, 1998
- Hip hop ‘bin around since 1970. It got exposed in 1979. So once it’s exposed, this is it. Just like crack. Crack ‘bin around, till Richard Pryor got burnt up, then it went: whoosh! — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years [quoting Kool Herc], p. 45, 1999
- I know I shouldn’t have but crack, mixed with a sprinkling of heroin to take away the edginess, was just what I needed[.] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 1, 2000
- entertaining conversation in good company IRELAND, 1966
Irish neologism craic (an informal entertainment) combines with earlier Eirrean use of “the crack” (brisk talk, news); ultimately from Old English cracian (crack, a loud noise). - [A] couple of pints of good beer, maybe the first in the week and the crack... the crack... we’d talk of many things... — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- There’s nothing comes close to the crack you have on the train down to a London match. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 161, 2001
- a witticism; a quick and funny remark US, 1884
- I sat there in the tree-shaded yard, listening to Axel talk and Marie make cracks[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 240, 1961
- a witty person US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, November 1976
- a smart person FIJI, 1993
- You must be a real crack to lecture at USP. — Jan Tent, 1996
- a top class racehorse AUSTRALIA
- The third horse, Postillion, ran a wonderfully good race to finish only two lengths behind the cracks[.] — Maurice Cavanough and Meurig Davies, Cup Day, p. 125, 1960
- From that win, and another soon after in the All-Aged Stakes, when the little mare vanquished the best weight-for-age cracks, he pocketed £50,000 in stakes and bets. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 84, 1966
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 25, 1977
- the vagina UK, 1775
The imagery from which this derives should be apparent; it remains in widespread use. - “Snatch,” “hole,” “kooze, “slash,” “pussy” and “crack” were other terms referring variously to women’s genitals, to women as individuals, or to women as a species. — Screw, p. 5, 3 January 1972
- I could feel the soft hairs over her crack and they aroused me like always. — Donald Goines, Never Die Alone, p. 163, 1974
- He used his forefingers to gently pry her crack apart. — Jon Sharpe, Springfield Shooters, p. 73, 1994
- She splays wide her hairless crack before Max Hardcore (real name Max Steiner), who initiates her into the Mile-High Club. — Editors of Adult Video News, The AVN Guide to the 500 Greatest Adult Films of All Time, p. 199, 2005
- the cleft between the buttock muscles; loosely, the bottom; or, more narrowly, the anus UK
- If they decide to shine their lovelight on you [...] the journos [journalists]’ll suck the fart sediment out of your crack. — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 101, 1999
- a passing of wind US
- I let farts to be sure, but hardly ever a real crack, they oozed out with a sucking noise, melted in the mighty never. — Samuel Beckett, The Complete Short Prose (The End), p. 97, 1946
- an instance; one item US, 1937
- He and I and Alvah drove to Oakland in Morley’s car and went first to some Goodwill stores and Salvation Army stores to buy various flannel shirts (at fifty cents a crack) and undershirts. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 84, 1958
- an opportunity or chance US, 1893
- Okay, who wants to take a crack at wiring Mr. Zimm’s jaw? — Get Shorty, 1995
- an attempt US, 1836 In phrases “have a crack,” “take a crack,” “give a crack,” etc.
- I’m not blaming anyone but it would have been nice to have a crack at the job and there should have been an open competition. — Guardian, 7 December 2002
- of drawn or day, the break, the instant it commences US, 1887
- Yeah, the bed in my room has a loose spring / It pokes my back till crack of day — This Euphoria, I’d Rather Be Lost, 1994
- [G]etting up at the crack of dawn to buy flowers at St Philips Market[.] — BBC Radio Bristol, 5 March 2003
- the latest news UK
Anglo-Irish. Heard on a building site in Lancashire. - What’s the latest crack? — John Davies, 1979
- wood; firewood UK, 1851
English gypsy use. - — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 10, 2000
▶ on crack
out of your mind US
Used in situations where there is no crack cocaine involved, usually humorously in a statement such as “What are you, on crack?”.- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, April 1995
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