crackajack
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
And—and, unless I’m wrong, Kaiser Bill is short one crackajack sniper and one perfectly good Prussian colonel too.
From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various
Well, old Benjamin, the father, who was located in Framingham somewhere about the year 1716, had twelve children and three of these—Benjamin, Junior, Simon, and Aaron all became crackajack clockmakers, especially Simon.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
"And he's a crackajack, too," put in Billy.
From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Homer Randall
"I am no great judge of the pipes myself, but he strikes me as a crackajack and I shouldn't be surprised if he would make you all sit up."
From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Ralph Connor
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