| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
| (noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
| (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
| (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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| (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
| (noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
| (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
| (noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
| (noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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| crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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