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cracked

[krakt]

adjective

  1. broken.

    a container full of cracked ice.

  2. broken without separation of parts; fissured.

  3. damaged; injured.

  4. Informal.eccentric; mad; daffy.

    a charming person, but a bit cracked.

  5. broken in tone, as the voice.



cracked

/ æ /

adjective

  1. damaged by cracking

  2. informalcrazy

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Other Word Forms

  • uncracked adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cracked1

First recorded in 1400–50, cracked is from the late Middle English word crachyd. See crack, -ed 2
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. cracked up to be, reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative).

    I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.

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Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for signs of trouble.

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It’s packed with ideas from all over the American songbook — Aaron Copland and western folk, run through with Wilson’s own cracked impressionist view of life on the rails.

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West Indies gamely approached the chase as Rovman Powell cracked an unbeaten 79 while captain Shai Hope smeared three sixes in his 45.

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A passenger plane from Heathrow to Detroit had to return to the London airport due to a cracked windscreen.

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When he saw the result in the mirror, he cracked up: “Oh my God, I’m Geppetto. I look just like the Disney version.”

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