# crack
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /kɹæk/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -æk
* Homophone: craic

### Etymology 1

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
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 gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
Compare typologically English crevice derived from Latin crepō, Bulgarian пукнатина (puknatina) akin to пу́кам (púkam), Russian тре́щина (tréščina) akin to треск (tresk), щель (ščelʹ) akin to щёлкать (ščólkatʹ).

#### Verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)
* (intransitive) To form cracks.
    It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
* (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
    When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
* (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
    Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
* (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
    When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
* (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
    The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
* (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
    His voice cracked with emotion.
* (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
    His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
* (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
    "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
* (transgender slang, intransitive) To realize that one is transgender.
    She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.
* (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
    The ball cracked the window.
* (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
    You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
* (transitive) To strike forcefully.
    She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
** 1914 June 10, “Pillow Fight In Australian Parliament”, in Independence Daily Reporter:Bedding provided for late session became ammunition—meet ended in riot when Labor man cracked leader on jaw.
* (transitive) To open slightly.
    Could you please crack the window?
* (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
    They managed to crack him on the third day.
* (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
    I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
** 2021 November 17, Conrad Landin, “Network News: Vivarail goes forth with fast-charging batteries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 13:"[...] The key to battery trains is more the ability to charge quickly. If you can do that, you've cracked it."
* (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
    It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
    They finally cracked the code.
* (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
    to crack a whip
** 2001, Doug McGuinn, The Apple Indians:Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy […]
* (transitive) To tell (a joke).
    The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
* (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
    Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
* (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
    That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
** 1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired‎, →ISSN:Nobody really knows how much actual damage cracking does to the software companies. But as the industry rolls apprehensively toward the uncertain future of an ever-more frictionless electronic marketplace, almost everyone thinks piracy will increase.
* (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
    I'd love to crack open a beer.
    Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
** 1894, The Strand, volume 8, page 569:Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.
* (obsolete) To brag; to boast.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 216:To whom the boaſter, that all knights did blot, / With proud diſdaine did ſcornefull anſwere make; […] And further did vncomely ſpeaches crake.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 134, column 2, line 268:And Æthiopes of their ſweet complexion crack.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cauſes of Melancholy. Vaine-glory, Pride, Ioy, Praiſe, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 3, subsection 14, page 126:Stultitiam ſuam produnt &c. (ſaith Platerus) your very tradeſmen, if they be excellent, will crack and bragge, and ſhew their folly in exceſſe.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Melancholy. Simple alternatives. Compound Alternatiues, Cenſure of Compounds and mixt Phyſick.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection v:Cardan cracks that he can cure all diſeaſes with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did moſt infirmities with one medicine.
* (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
** 1697, Virgil, “Dedications”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:The credit […] of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
* (colloquial) To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).
    An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100
** 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:IQ (Intelligence Quotient), number said to measure an individual's intelligence that many experts who clearly didn't crack 125 say overlooks important attributes such as creativity and social skills.

##### Derived terms

* black don't crack
* crackability
* crackable
* crack a book
* crack a crib
* crack a crust
* crack a fat
* crackage
* crack along
* crack a smile
* crackback
* crack down
* cracked
* cracker
* crackjaw
* crackle
* crack off
* crack on
* crack one off
* crack one's fingers
* crack onto
* crack open
* crack someone's egg
* crack the egg
* crack the flags
* crack-the-whip
* crack the whip
* crack through
* crack up
* crack-up
* difficult nut to crack
* employ a steam engine to crack a nut
* good black don't crack
* hard nut to crack
* one's egg cracks
* outcrack
* precrack
* recrack
* there's more than one way to crack an egg
* tougher nut to crack
* toughest nut to crack
* tough nut to crack
* use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
* what's cracking
* you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

##### Related terms

* crazed (exhibiting fine-line cracks)

##### Translations

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##### See also

* hack

#### Noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)
* A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
    Synonyms: crevice, fissure
    A large crack had formed in the roadway.
* A narrow opening.
    We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
    Open the door a crack.
** 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC‎: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.
* A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
    I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
* (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
    Synonyms: crack rock, hard
    crack head
** 1995, “Dear Mama”, in Me Against the World, performed by 2Pac:And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama
** 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 122: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.
** (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
    kitty crack ― catnip
*** [2012 March 23, Rob Patronite, Robin Raisfeld, “Your Brain on Food”, in New York Magazine: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.”]
* (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
    Synonyms: pop, snap; see also Thesaurus:snap, Thesaurus:bang
    The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
* (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
    The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
** 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport‎: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.
* A sharp, resounding blow.
** 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC: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.
* (informal) An attempt at something.
    I'd like to take a crack at that game.
* (vulgar, slang) The vagina.
    Synonyms: crevice, gash; see also Thesaurus:vagina
** 1956, Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 143:I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack.
* (informal) The space between the buttocks.
    Synonyms: (UK) arse crack, (US) ass crack, (US) buttcrack, (UK) bum crack; see also Thesaurus:gluteal cleft
    Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
* (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
    Synonyms: bonhomie, craic, jollity, joviality, laugh, warmth
    The party was great crack.
    He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]
** 2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, page 214:Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.
** 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
    "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
** 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10: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!
* (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
    What's the crack?
    What's this crack about a possible merger?
* (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
    Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
* (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.A nuclear explosion in shallow water; the crack is clearly visible on the water's surface.
    Coordinate term: slick
* (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
* (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
* The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
** 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:And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground
* (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
    He has a crack.
* (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
    Synonym: crackpot
** 1711 December 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, 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: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’The spelling has been modernized.
* (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
    Synonyms: brag, vaunt
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 350:Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes
* (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
** 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:But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt.
* (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
    Synonym: pistol
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, 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: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. 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:Indeed la, tis a noble childe. / - A Cracke Madam.
* (slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
    Synonyms: flash, moment, twink; see also Thesaurus:moment
    I'll be with you in a crack.
* (African-American Vernacular, dated) The act of hitting on someone.
** 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: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.

##### Usage notes

* (Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster, conviviality): In recent decades, the word has been adopted into Gaelic as craic.

##### Derived terms

* ab crack
* anticrack
* arse crack
* arse-crack
* ass crack
* ass crack of dawn
* bum crack
* bumcrack
* butt crack
* butt crack of dawn
* crack-a-jack
* crack baby
* crackberry
* crackbrain
* crackbrained
* crackfic
* crack fic
* Crackgate
* crack hand
* crack head
* crackhead
* crack-hemp
* crackhouse
* crack house
* crackie
* crack kills
* crackless
* cracklet
* cracklike
* crack-loo
* crackmeter
* crack of dawn
* crack of doom
* crack out
* crack pairing
* crackpipe
* crack pipe
* crackpot
* crackproof
* crack rock
* crack-rope
* crack seed
* crackship
* cracksman
* crack snacker
* crack team
* cracktro
* crack whore
* crack willow
* crack wise
* cracky
* crickety-crack
* EverCrack
* fair crack of the whip
* fall between the cracks
* have a crack at
* hippy crack
* hydrocrack
* kitty crack
* like crack
* macrocrack
* microcrack
* mudcrack
* nutcrack
* plastic crack
* plumber's crack
* quarter crack
* sand crack
* steam-crack
* suncrack
* take a crack at
* thundercrack
* tocrack
* voice crack
* Warcrack
* what's the crack
* whipcrack
* wiki crack
* wisecrack

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

Slang first attested 1793, perhaps from the verb in the sense of doing something quickly or with intelligence, or in the sense of "speaking boastingly" and having something to be proud of.

#### Adjective

crack (not comparable)
* Highly trained and competent.
    Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
* Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
    She's a crack shot with that rifle.
** 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 38, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that in three or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment on one of our crack speakers in the Commons.
** 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:Fortunately, it is unusual for the crack transatlantic liners to sail or dock on a Saturday, but it is the custom for most holiday cruises to start on that day, returning on Fridays a fortnight or three weeks later.

##### Derived terms

* crack shot, crackshot
* crack train
* crack troops

##### Related terms

* crackerjack

#### Noun

crack (plural cracks)
* (obsolete) One who excels; the best.
** 1888 [1637], James Shirley, Hyde Park, act IV, scene iii, page 236:1st Gent. What dost think, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you.

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: crac
* → French: crack
* → German: Crack
* → Portuguese: craque
* → Spanish: crack

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “crack”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* “crack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crack”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “crack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English crack.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkræk/, [ˈkræk]
* Rhymes: -æk

### Noun

crack
* crack (variety of cocaine)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of crack (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
crackini
crackini
accusative
nom.
crackini
crackini
gen.
crackini
genitive
crackini
crackieni
partitive
crackiäni
crackejäni
inessive
crackissäni
crackeissäni
elative
crackistäni
crackeistäni
illative
crackiini
crackeihini
adessive
crackilläni
crackeilläni
ablative
crackiltäni
crackeiltäni
allative
crackilleni
crackeilleni
essive
crackinäni
crackeinäni
translative
crackikseni
crackeikseni
abessive
crackittäni
crackeittäni
instructive
comitative
—crackeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
crackisi
crackisi
accusative
nom.
crackisi
crackisi
gen.
crackisi
genitive
crackisi
crackiesi
partitive
crackiäsi
crackejäsi
inessive
crackissäsi
crackeissäsi
elative
crackistäsi
crackeistäsi
illative
crackiisi
crackeihisi
adessive
crackilläsi
crackeilläsi
ablative
crackiltäsi
crackeiltäsi
allative
crackillesi
crackeillesi
essive
crackinäsi
crackeinäsi
translative
crackiksesi
crackeiksesi
abessive
crackittäsi
crackeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—crackeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
crackimme
crackimme
accusative
nom.
crackimme
crackimme
gen.
crackimme
genitive
crackimme
crackiemme
partitive
crackiämme
crackejämme
inessive
crackissämme
crackeissämme
elative
crackistämme
crackeistämme
illative
crackiimme
crackeihimme
adessive
crackillämme
crackeillämme
ablative
crackiltämme
crackeiltämme
allative
crackillemme
crackeillemme
essive
crackinämme
crackeinämme
translative
crackiksemme
crackeiksemme
abessive
crackittämme
crackeittämme
instructive
comitative
—crackeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
crackinne
crackinne
accusative
nom.
crackinne
crackinne
gen.
crackinne
genitive
crackinne
crackienne
partitive
crackiänne
crackejänne
inessive
crackissänne
crackeissänne
elative
crackistänne
crackeistänne
illative
crackiinne
crackeihinne
adessive
crackillänne
crackeillänne
ablative
crackiltänne
crackeiltänne
allative
crackillenne
crackeillenne
essive
crackinänne
crackeinänne
translative
crackiksenne
crackeiksenne
abessive
crackittänne
crackeittänne
instructive
comitative
—crackeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
crackinsä
crackinsä
accusative
nom.
crackinsä
crackinsä
gen.
crackinsä
genitive
crackinsä
crackiensä
partitive
crackiään crackiänsä
crackejään crackejänsä
inessive
crackissään crackissänsä
crackeissään crackeissänsä
elative
crackistään crackistänsä
crackeistään crackeistänsä
illative
crackiinsä
crackeihinsä
adessive
crackillään crackillänsä
crackeillään crackeillänsä
ablative
crackiltään crackiltänsä
crackeiltään crackeiltänsä
allative
crackilleen crackillensä
crackeilleen crackeillensä
essive
crackinään crackinänsä
crackeinään crackeinänsä
translative
crackikseen crackiksensä
crackeikseen crackeiksensä
abessive
crackittään crackittänsä
crackeittään crackeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—crackeineen crackeinensä :

### Further reading

* “crack”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English crack.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁak/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

crack m (plural cracks)
* (colloquial) champion, ace, expert
    Synonyms: champion, as
    C’est un crack en informatique. ― He/she is a computer whiz.
* (computing) crack (program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions)

### Noun

crack f (uncountable)
* crack cocaine

### Further reading

* “crack”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* craque (adapted form)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English crack (“crack cocaine, computer program”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾa.ki/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾak/

### Noun

crack m (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)
* (uncountable) crack (crack cocaine)
* (countable, computing) crack (computer program for bypassing licenses and other restrictions)

#### Derived terms

* crackear
* cracudo

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾak/ [ˈkɾak]
* Rhymes: -ak

### Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English crack.

#### Noun

crack m (plural cracks)
* crack cocaine
* champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (outstanding person)

##### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French krach, from German Krach.

#### Noun

crack m (plural cracks)
* Misspelling of crac.

### Further reading

* “crack”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English crack.

### Noun

crack n or c
* (uncountable, colloquial) crack cocaine