Usually means: Fractures or splits in materials.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cracks: Merriam-Webster
  2. cracks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cracks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cracks, cracks: Wordnik
  5. cracks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cracks: Wiktionary
  7. cracks: Dictionary.com
  8. cracks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cracks (film), Cracks (novel), Cracks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. cracks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cracks: Legal dictionary
  2. cracks: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cracks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cracks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cracks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cracks: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cracks: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Crack)

verb:  (intransitive) To form cracks.
verb:  (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
verb:  (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
verb:  (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
verb:  (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
verb:  (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
verb:  (intransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To realize that one is transgender.
verb:  (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
verb:  (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
verb:  (transitive) To strike forcefully.
verb:  (transitive) To open slightly.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
verb:  (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
verb:  (transitive) To tell (a joke).
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
verb:  (obsolete) To brag; to boast.
verb:  (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
verb:  (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
noun:  A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
noun:  A narrow opening.
noun:  A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
noun:  (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
noun:  (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
noun:  (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
noun:  (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
noun:  A sharp, resounding blow.
noun:  (informal) An attempt at something.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
noun:  (informal) The space between the buttocks.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
noun:  (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
noun:  (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
noun:  (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
noun:  (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
noun:  The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
noun:  (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
noun:  (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
noun:  (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
noun:  (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
noun:  (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
noun:  (slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, dated) The act of hitting on someone.
adjective:  Highly trained and competent.
adjective:  Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
noun:  (obsolete) One who excels; the best.
noun:  A surname
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