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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
informalcrazy
Other Word Forms
- uncracked adjective
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
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.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
West Indies gamely approached the chase as Rovman Powell cracked an unbeaten 79 while captain Shai Hope smeared three sixes in his 45.
A passenger plane from Heathrow to Detroit had to return to the London airport due to a cracked windscreen.
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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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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