CRAC

abbreviation for

Ev'y nut you crac' now goin' cos' you a yell when you git 'long 'bout fawty an' fifty.

Then comes the cric-crac-cric-crac, sewing machine-like hammering of our mitrailleuses.

With his hand or with a hooked stick the rider breaks the thread, snatches the cockade—Crac!

Cric-crac was heard, and another of his iron bands broke and fell.

Her husband speculated in stocks, and ruined himself; then, crac!

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