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crack
verb- to speak US, 1897
- I said, “Have you cracked anything about me to him?” — Iceberg Silm (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 155, 1969
- As I was about ready to end my spiel, my man Walter cracked “Go on and pimp, Stoney, to hell with what any black-ass pimping sonuvabitch gotta say!” — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 45, 1973
- When I crack on a female “how you livin?” she got to respond to me in the positive, or I don’t waste my time. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 87, 1989
- to ask for something US, 1928
- Oh yeah, you can cop a “spike” [needle] at any drug store. You gotta crack for insulin with it. — Iceberg Silm (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 135, 1969
- When I cracked for seconds, the hack stood there looking / I said, “Serve it raw, punk. The chair’ll do the cooking.” — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 118, 1976
- to reveal a secret; to inform on someone US, 1922
- [I]t was easy going through the usual jailhouse bullshit, answering a lotta things, like who’s doing what, how long Joe Blow been dealing, how’d I get cracked, who cracked me. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 127, 1973
- to tease someone; to taunt someone; to insult someone US, 1930
- The girls used to fight over their macs. “That coffee-an’ mac you got,” a French girl would crack to a straight one, and then it was on–hair came out by the handful. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 23, 1946
- When he was new to the life he’d liked to crack on them just for the sport. — Alix Shulman, On the Stroll, p. 229, 1981
- Rodney, man, I was just crackin’. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 181, 1992
- — Vann Wesson, Generation X Field Guide and Lexicon, p. 42, 1997
- There are many different terms for playing the dozens, including “bagging, capping, cracking, dissing, hiking, joning, ranking, ribbing, serving, signifying, slipping, sounding and snapping.” — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
- to arrest someone US, 1952
- Did you know that was the time I got cracked? That the Man swooped down on me? — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Farm, p. 46, 1967
- I had spent the two months in County Jail where I had been taken after Captain Churchill, a "House" bloodhound, backed by city police, crashed my pad and cracked me on an ancient fugitive warrant for the escape from the “House.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 21, 1971
- How did you get cracked on that there rape beef, anyway, Green Grass? — Charles W. Moore, A Brick for Mister Jones, p. 103, 1975
- to break and enter using force with the intent of committing a crime within UK, 1725
- I’m going out to crack safes. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 174, 8 December 1948
- Are you game to crack another store? — Hal Ellson, Tomboy, p. 6, 1950
- Their method of “cracking” a home was this. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 121, 1951
- [B]ecause three blocks away, a short walk for a sick junkie, are respectable neighborhoods good for burglary and “cracking shorts” (breaking into cars). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 19, 1966
- That’s what happened when I and another guy planned on cracking a joint[.] — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 102, 1990
- They ran nightclubs, numbers rackets, and girls; they cracked safes and fenced stolen property. — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 62, 1993
- to change paper money into coin UK, 1961
Originally used by seamen in Liverpool; phrased in use as, for example: “can you crack a fiver?” meaning “can you change a five pound note?”. - to have sex with a girl who is a virgin FIJI, 1992
- She too young to crack, man. — Jan Tent, 1995
- in surfing, to catch a wave AUSTRALIA, 1957
- We spent two weeks in a rented cottage at Coff’s Harbour, and I finally learned to crack a wave, and was very proud of myself. — Nino Cluotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, 157
- So I’m in the surf cracking waves when all of a sudden a near tidal job smashed me[.] — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, 1957
- to strike something or someone in such a way that a sharp noise is produced; to slap, to smack, etc. UK, 1836
- Chanderpaul suffered a dual indignity when a delivery which pitched outside leg stayed down and cracked him on the inside of his knee, sending him sprawling on the pitch in agony. — The Advertiser (South Australia), 12 April 2003
- in cricket, to hit a ball hard UK, 1882
- Sehwag cracked the third ball of his second spell behind point for four[.] — Guardian, 9 August 2002
- to drum with expertise TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
A shortening of “crack a hand.” - — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to shoot US
- We both had a look of surprise. And I cracked him. — Wallace Terry, Bloods, p. 21, 1984
- to commit burglary US
- We would go crack some poison joints and he would get enough stuff [drugs] to last him two or three months. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 48, 1972
▶ crack a bennie
to break a Benzedrine (amphetamine sulphate) inhaler open US- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 7, December 1970
▶ crack a fat
to achieve an erection AUSTRALIA- Pommy sheilas? Aw, they’re apples I s’pose–but the way I feel now I don’t reckon I could crack a fat! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 52, 1968
- If you can’t crack a fat or anythink, youse’ll owe me double, see. — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 34, 1998
▶ crack a grain
to suffer aching testicles TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ crack a Judy; crack a Judy’s tea-cup
to take a woman’s virginity UK, 1937
Formed from conventional “crack” (to break, to open) and JUDYBaby baby baby let me pick your cherry / Go star-gazin’ on yer back / To crack a Judy’s teacup I’ll give you a little upshot / Doncha say your mama’s comin’ back — Savage Garden, Smashed ‘n’ Trashed, 1995▶ crack a laugh
to burst into laughter TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ crack a lay
to divulge something secret AUSTRALIA, 1941- Of course, I didn’t crack a lay who I was. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 121, 1979
▶ crack a rat
to fart US- — Peter Furze, Tailwinds, p. 39, 1998
▶ crack a short
to break into a car US- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 7, 1970
▶ crack a smile
to smile broadly, especially of someone who is usually serious UK, 1990- Designer coffins are the way to go these days. If you want your mourners to crack a smile then the Return to Sender model painted to look like a courier package may be just the ticket. — Guardian, 2 March 2000
▶ crack an egg- in bowls, to play with just sufficient weight to move a bowl or a jack an inch or two SOUTH AFRICA
- in curling, to touch a stone lightly with the bowled stone CANADA
- — Weekend, p. 34, 26 November 1960
▶ crack the nut
to meet an operation’s daily operating expenses US- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 29, 1980
▶ crack wise
to insult someone with a degree of sarcasm and humour US, 1921
Imparts a slight air of the old gangster life.- If he was all hopped up, cracking wise, acting big buying drinks for the house, he was on his way. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 59, 1946
- He came up to me cracking wise all the way and we shook hands. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 350, 1961
- Such a wiseass. But go ahead. Crack wise. That’s why you’re jockeying a register in some fucking local convenience store instead of doing an honest day’s work. — Clerks, 1994
▶ crack your cherry
to lose your innocence or virginity US- He had no idea he was talking to a young man who cracked his cherry in the thievery business with forty times that at Ludwig’s. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 76, 1970
▶ crack your face
to smile broadly, especially of a usually serious person UK, 1966- That Eunice is a miserable bugger–she’s never been known to crack her face. — Guardian, 3 January 2000
▶ get cracking
to start, to begin work UK, 1937- In, out–let’s get crackin’! — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- Let’s skiddadle [go hurriedly] down the nearest tube [London underground] and get cracking. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Get cracking, you bunch of fairies! — Guardian, 25 January 2003
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