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verb (intr often foll by with)

informal to continue to do something as quickly as possible

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Words nearby crack on

crackling, crackly, cracknel, crack of dawn, crack of doom, crack on, crackpot, cracksman, crack the whip, crackup, crack willow

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How to use crack on in a sentence

Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
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I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.
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Here, said Toby, as the young Jew placed some fragments of food and a bottle upon the table, Success to the crack!
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
There is always something doing there, and I opened the door a crack to hear what was under discussion.
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