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crack it verb- to succeed in some endeavour; to attain a desire AUSTRALIA, 1936
- Keep on with your art, mate. You’ll crack it one day, I’m sure of it. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 78, 1969
- The buggers are always wanting to visit. Especially around Christmas. In the hope of cracking it for a presso. — Phillip Adams, The Unspeakable Adams, p. 181, 1977
- He cracked it for a lift out to the Territory[.] — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 140, 1979
- I think he’s cracked it. — The Observer, 14 June 2002
- to succeed in gaining sexual intercourse; to have sex AUSTRALIA, 1941
- Be careful of wogs though. I won’t get off with them myself. Rather not crack it than crack it with a wog. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 88, 1970
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 33, 1999
- to work as a prostitute AUSTRALIA, 1945
- I knew he cracked it along the big stone wall of East Sydney Tech, opposite the police station. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 79, 1987
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