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cracked
[ krakt ]
adjective
- broken:
a container full of cracked ice.
- broken without separation of parts; fissured.
- damaged; injured.
- Informal. eccentric; mad; daffy:
a charming person, but a bit cracked.
- broken in tone, as the voice.
cracked
/ æ /
adjective
- damaged by cracking
- informal.crazy
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- cracked up to be, Informal. reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative):
I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.
Example Sentences
Seven tiles in his dining room floor cracked in March, which he blames on vibration from the trucks.
He was working in a cold storage warehouse when his cover of Rufus track Tell Me Something Good cracked the Top 20 in the UK charts.
He slept upright in a cracked vinyl chair beside my hospital bed for days, leaving only to grab dinner when my brother came to sit with me.
The acid-induced crisis had cracked open not just a marriage, but the emotional fortress of English reserve that had shaped both father and son.
Tearful hugs were exchanged and a bottle of champagne was cracked open.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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