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
But it's sure goin' to be a crackajack.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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
"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
Ellabelle was a crackajack housekeeper and had plenty of time to lie out in the hammock and read 'Lucile' of afternoons.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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