crack – English noun declension

English noun forms of crack

Noun: crack
Singularcrack
Pluralcracks

Sample Sentences

  • A large crack had formed in the roadway.
  • We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
  • Open the door a crack.
  • Dimitar Berbatov found the first cracks in the home side's resilience when he pulled one back from close range and Hernandez himself drew the visitors level with a composed finish three minutes later as Bloomfield Road's earlier jubilation turned to despair. [2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC:]
  • I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
  • It’s a fact all those cracks they can hold you back / But there’s a better way (there’s a better way) / Just keep on pushing, keep on pushing, keep on pushing / For a brighter day [1978, Shalamar, “Leave It All Up to Love”, in Disco Gardens:]
  • crack head
  • And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama [1995, “Dear Mama”, in Me Against the World, performed by 2Pac:]
  • There were times when she could tell the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like crack or ice while she was pregnant with him. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 122:]
  • kitty crack (catnip)
  • When did naming foods after a powerful narcotic become a thing?[…]Now the mean streets of New York are rife with “salted crack caramel” ice cream, “pistachio crack” brittle, “crack steak” sandwiches, and “tuna on crack.” [[2012 March 23, Rob Patronite, Robin Raisfeld, “Your Brain on Food”, in New York Magazine:]
  • The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
  • The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
  • She broke to love in the opening game, only for Bartoli to hit straight back in game two, which was interrupted by a huge crack of thunder that made Lisicki jump and prompted nervous laughter from the 15,000 spectators. [2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion. [1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:]
  • I'd like to take a crack at that game.
  • I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack. [1956, Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 143:]
  • Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
  • The party was great crack.
  • He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]
  • But first I maun hae a crack wi' an auld acquaintance here.—Mr. Owen, Mr. Owen, how's a' wi' ye, man? [1817, Walter Scott, chapter 5, in Rob Roy, volume 2, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Company, published 1818, page 193:]
  • He seed 'em bawth as he coom'd frae t' Nab, / Nobbut aaf an hooer agone: / An' he stopp'd, did Jan, for a bit of a crack, / For t' gells was lahk aloan. [1865, Arthur Munby, “T' Moossel Getherers”, in Verses New and Old, London: Bell and Daldy, page 54:]
  • Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack. [2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, page 214:]
  • "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to" [2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)]
  • By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence! [2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10:]
  • And when he come down in the evenings, he’d drop in every night to have a crack wi’ Old Bob. [1936, Arthur Ransome, chapter 3, in Pigeon Post:]
  • What's the crack?
  • What's this crack about a possible merger?
  • But, aw see yo known him weel enough; an' so aw'll tell yo a bit of a crack abeawt him an' Owd Neddy. [1869, Edwin Waugh, “Ramble from Bury to Rochdale”, in Lancashire Sketches, 3rd edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.:]
  • Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
  • And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 389, column 2:]
  • He has a crack.
  • On the London Cries […] I have lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject […] ‘Sir, […], but I cannot get the parliament to listen to me ; who look upon me, forsooth, as a crack and a projector […] I am, SIR, &c. / RALPH CROTCHET’ [1711 December 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 18, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 251; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 251-256:]
  • Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 350:]
  • D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yere cracks? [1814, Walter Scott, chapter 30, in Waverley, volume 1, Boston: Samuel H. Parker, published 1828, page 224:]
  • But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt. [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 396:]
  • The ſame Sir Iohn, the very ſame: I ſaw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […] [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 86, column 2:]
  • Indeed la, tis a noble childe. / - A Cracke Madam. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 4, column 2:]
  • I'll be with you in a crack.
  • The eyes of my sisters who fear my crack^*
  • [footnote] Before the popularization of the term "crack" as a drug, its common usage in the Black community referred to men publicly cruising and approaching women. [1987 February 1, Joseph Beam, “Creating Myself from Scratch: Living as a Black Gay Man in the 1980s”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 5:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *gerg-der.
4. Proto-West Germanic *krakōn
5. Old English cracian
6. Middle English crakken
7. English crack
8. From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
9. Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gi̇̀rgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
10. Compare typologically English crevice (<< Latin crepō), Bulgarian пукнатина (puknatina) (akin to пу́кам (púkam)), Russian тре́щина (tréščina) (akin to треск (tresk)), щель (ščelʹ) (akin to щёлкать (ščólkatʹ)). See: Old English Nouns 'cracian', Dutch Nouns 'kraken', German Nouns 'krachen'.

Verbs referencing "crack"

Finnish Nouns crack, French Nouns crack, Swedish Nouns crack, Irish Nouns craic, Finnish Nouns kräkki, Dutch Nouns kraak, Russian Nouns крэк, English Nouns craic killer, Ukrainian Nouns крек.