Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Broken so that fissures appear on the surface: a cracked mirror.
- adj. Broken into small or coarse pieces: cracked corn; cracked ice.
- adj. Having a harsh or dissonant tone: a cracked voice.
- adj. Informal Mentally deranged; crazy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Burst or split; rent; partially severed: as, a cracked pitcher.
- Broken or changing, as the voice of youth verging on manhood, or of old age.
- Blemished, as an impaired reputation.
- Imperfect, as a doubtful title.
- Impaired intellectually; crazy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
- adj. Broken into coarse pieces.
- adj. of a voice Harsh or dissonant.
- adj. slang Crazy; crackpot.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of crack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Coarsely ground or broken.
- adj. colloq. Crack-brained.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
- adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
Examples
“The word cracked into air like a storm waiting, banked and ready.”
“His word cracked like a whip, stinging her but laying him open.”
“For about 10 seconds, this entry was everything its label cracked it up to be-then, with absolutely no warning, that crack morphed into a tectonic fault.”
“The eating and the socializing were more than enough reward for fulfilling our judging duties, but we also came away with an exquisite handmade pie cozy, courtesy of Gretchen's mom, who once again cracked the whip as judge wrangler.”
“Look here, Smoke, if you're gettin 'cracked on systems this ain't no place for you, an' it's about time we hit the trail again.”
“Okay, reading this line again cracked me up – definitely one of the best lines last night (and one of the best scenes)”
“A 5 acre beetle kill area that was covered in cracked corn and wheat.”
“The safe, just waiting to be cracked, is the bonus symbol.”
“Woodstein cracked Watergate not by celebrity “interviews” but shoe leather reporting.”
“A pistol cracked from the shoal, a second, and a third; then a regular fusillade began.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cracked’.
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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textures
rocky, smooth, slimy, bumpy, sharp, silky, grainy, flaky, ridged, rugged, cracked
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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Carnage, Injury, and Verbs, Oh My!
Actually, the title covers it well.
slick, spatter, crunch, burst, sprayed, jagged, gape, clash, crush, snap, gash, struck and 10 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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Physical Words
These are words I like or would like to use to describe people's physicality, and are actually physical words. This is a companion to Not Quite Physical Words
gaunt, wizened, limber, rangy, gangly, svelte, cacopygian, callipygian, brittle, limping, tremor, cracked and 7 more...
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unquiet_history's Words
communist, eldritch, red, salvage, low, inventive, vegetarian, structured, reusable, intertextual, marxist, classless and 11 more...
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