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crack
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crack: see cocaine cocaine , alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in addition to its anesthetic effect, it constricts small
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crack
To break into. See cracker.
crack
1. a break or fracture without complete separation of the two parts
2. a physical or mental defect; flaw
3. a broken or cracked tone of voice, as a boy's during puberty
4. Slang a processed form of cocaine hydrochloride used as a stimulant. It is highly addictive
5. Obsolete slang a burglar or burglary

crack [krak]
(chemistry)
To break a compound into simpler molecules.
(engineering)
To open something slightly, for instance, a valve.
(science and technology)
A fissure.

crack
A building defect consisting of complete or incomplete separation within a single element or between contiguous elements of constructions.


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The athlete or performer has been training most of their life for tasks that they perform; and let''s say in our case, the student has hardly cracked a book or studied at all for the impending test.
I went home and cleaned them up, and I cracked a book about fossils.
Maronna) are world-class cheaters about to graduate from college with honors and without ever having cracked a book.
 
 
 
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