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cracked up to be

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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.
6. cracked up to be, Informal. reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative): I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME crachyd. See crack, -ed 2
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