- ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops - of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"
Antonym: inferior (indirect, via superior)
- crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure - a long narrow opening
--1 is a kind of opening, gap
--1 has particulars:chap; chink; crevasse; fatigue crack; fault, geological fault, shift, fracture, break; rift; slit; split; vent, volcano; volcanic crater, crater Derived form: verb crack6 - gap, crack - a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack"
--2 is a kind of opening
--2 has particulars: lacuna, blank; spark gap - crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap - a long narrow depression in a surface
--3 is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
- crack, cracking, snap - a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
--4 is a kind of noise
- shot, crack - a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
--5 is a kind of opportunity, chance
- wisecrack, crack, sally, quip - witty remark
--6 is a kind of remark, comment
Derived form: verb crack9 - crack - a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
--7 is a kind of blemish, defect, mar
--7 has particulars: craze- crack, tornado - a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
--8 is a kind of cocaine, cocain
- crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer - a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
--9 is a kind of attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
- fracture, crack, cracking - the act of cracking something
--10 is a kind of breakage, break, breaking
- crack, tornado - a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
- crack, check, break - become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
--1 is one way to change
Sample sentences:
The glass tubes crack
These glasses crack easily
- crack - make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
--2 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun cracker4, noun cracking1
Something ----s
- snap, crack - make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
--3 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun cracker5
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- crack - hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
--4 is one way to hit
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun cracking2
The fighter managed to crack his opponent
- break through, crack - pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
--5 is one way to pass, go through, go across
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- crack - break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
--6 is one way to crack, check, break
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun crack1
Something ----s
- snap, crack - break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The rope snapped"
--7 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse - suffer a nervous breakdown
--8 is one way to suffer, sustain, have, get
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- crack - tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
--9 is one way to tell, narrate, recount, recite
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun crack6
Somebody ----s something
- crack - cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
--10 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
They crack the glass tubes
- crack - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
--11 is one way to decompose, break up, break down
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun cracking3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crack - break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
--12 is one way to change
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun cracking3
Something ----s
- crack - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking