(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Esimerkit
He/she is quare good crack.
I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
I wouldn't use it, if I was going to use it I can afford real cocaine. Crack is wack.
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.
I'd like to take a crack at that game.
I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!
Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.
"his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
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!
The crack was good.
That was good 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.
The party was great crack.
What's the crack?
Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
Though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack.
He has a crack.
I [...] can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
crack and brags
vainglorious cracks
- 'Tis a noble child. - A crack, madam.
I'll be with you in a crack.
She's a crack shot with that rifle.
Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
crack of a gunshot
It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
His voice cracked with emotion.
His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
The ball cracked the window.
You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
Could you please crack the window?
They managed to crack him on the third day.
I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
They finally cracked the code.
to crack a whip
Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy[...]
The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
I'd love to crack open a beer.
Cardan cracks that he can cure all diseases with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did most infirmities with one medicine.
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.
The credit[...]of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
A large crack had formed in the roadway.
We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.