cracked

[ krakt ]
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adjective
  1. broken: a container full of cracked ice.

  2. broken without separation of parts; fissured.

  1. damaged; injured.

  2. Informal. eccentric; mad; daffy: a charming person, but a bit cracked.

  3. broken in tone, as the voice.

Idioms about cracked

  1. 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 of cracked

1
First recorded in 1400–50, cracked is from the late Middle English word crachyd.See crack, -ed2

Other words from cracked

  • un·cracked, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for cracked

cracked

/ (krækt) /


adjective
  1. damaged by cracking

  2. informal crazy

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