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Crack a. World English Historical Dictionary

Crack a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crack a. colloq. or slang. [CRACK sb. 16, used attrib.] Pre-eminent, superexcellent, ‘first-class.’

1 1793.  Young, Ann. Agric., XIX. 95. [Sheep] called here [Suffolk] a crack flock, which is a provincial term for excellent.

2 1807.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 186. Crack regiments.

3 1837.  T. Hook, Jack Brag, xiv. My sleeping-room … was the crack apartment of the hotel.

4 1839.  Thackeray, Fatal Boots (1869), 365. I was … such a crack-shot myself, that fellows were shy of insulting me.

5 1884.  Christian World, 14 Aug., 612/1. It wasn’t … the crack speakers that brought the crowds up.

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