- 3. Difficulty, perplexity, intractability.
Crab-grass, n. Wire-grass, dog’s-tail grass (Eleusine Indica).
Crack, n.
- 1. Break, cleft, breach, chink, fissure, crevice, cranny, opening, rift, rent.
- 2. Report, clap, pop, burst, explosion.
- 3. Snap (of a whip).
Crack, v. a.
- 1. Break (partially).
- 2. Split, chop, cleave, rend asunder.
- 3. Snap (as a whip).
- 4. Craze, drive insane, madden.
Crack, v. n.
- 1. Break, split, burst, chap, open in chinks.
- 2. [With of.] Brag, bluster, vapor, vaunt, boast, gasconade, crow.
Crack, a. (Colloq.) Excellent, capital, tiptop, first-rate, first-class.
Crack-brained, a. Crazy, cracked, insane, crazed.
Cracked, a.
- 1. Broken, split.
- 2. Crazed, crazy, crack-brained, insane, demented, deranged, flighty, with a bee in the bonnet, with a
bee in the head.
Cracker, n.
- 1. Hard biscuit.
- 2. Fire-cracker.