cracking
adjective
[ ˈkrakɪŋ ]
• excellent.
• "he is in cracking form to win this race"
crack
verb
• break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts.
• "the ice all over the bog had cracked"
• make or cause to make a sudden sharp or explosive sound.
• "a shot cracked across the ridge"
Similar:
go bang,
bang,
pop,
snap,
crackle,
crash,
thud,
thump,
boom,
ring out,
clap,
explode,
detonate,
• find a solution to; decipher or interpret.
• "the code will help you crack the messages"
Similar:
solve,
find an/the answer to,
find a/the solution to,
resolve,
work out,
puzzle out,
fathom,
find the key to,
decipher,
decode,
break,
clear up,
interpret,
translate,
straighten out,
get to the bottom of,
make head or tail of,
unravel,
disentangle,
untangle,
unfold,
piece together,
elucidate,
figure out,
suss out,
• tell (a joke).
• "he cracked jokes which she didn't find very funny"
• decompose (hydrocarbons) by heat and pressure with or without a catalyst to produce lighter hydrocarbons, especially in oil refining.
• "catalytic cracking increases gasoline yields"
Origin:
Old English cracian ‘make an explosive noise’; of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraken and German krachen . crack (sense 4 of the noun) is from Irish craic ‘entertaining conversation’.
