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It kind of -- _corrodes_, I think they call it -- right where the crack is and it'll work all right for quite a while.

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  1. intransitive verb To break or snap apart.
  2. intransitive verb To make a sharp snapping sound.
  3. intransitive verb To break without complete separation of parts; fissure: The mirror cracked.
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hole ·  crash ·  roar ·  noise ·  explosion ·  rattle ·  flash ·  crevice ·  thud ·  gap ·  snap ·  crackle

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crack:   cracks ·  cracked ·  cracking
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  1. Middle English craken, from Old English cracian; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English cracke, crakke, from Middle English crakken, craken, from Anglo-Saxon cracian (also transposed, cearcian, later Middle English charken, cherkin, English chark, q. v.), crack, = Dutch kraken, crack, creak, krakken, crack, = Middle Low German Low German kraken (later F. craquer) = Old High German chrahhōn, Middle High German G. krachen, crack; cf. Gaelic crac, crack, break, crac, a crack, fissure. Prob. an imitative word: see chark, a doublet of crack, and cf. creak, crick, crake, clack, click, cluck, knack, crash, etc. Hence crackle, etc.
  2. from Middle English crak, a loud noise, din, = Dutch krak = Low German krak (later F. crac) = Old High German chrac, Middle High German G. krach; from the verb.
  3. from crack, n. and v., in sense of ‘boast.’
 

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