crackerjack

[krak-er-jak]

noun

1. a person or thing that shows marked ability or excellence.

adjective

1. of marked ability; exceptionally fine.

crackerjack

/ ˈkrækəˌdʒæk /

adjective

1. excellent

noun

1. a person or thing of exceptional quality or ability

Word History and Origins

Origin of crackerjack¹

1890–95, earlier crackajack, rhyming compound based on crack (adjective); -a- as in blackamoor ( def. ); jack ¹ ( def. ) in sense “fellow, buddy”

Word History and Origins

Origin of crackerjack¹

C20: changed from _crack (first-class) + _jack ¹ (man)

Example Sentences

In the film, Reeve can brood as well as he can smolder, punch as precisely as he can deliver a crackerjack line of dialogue.

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For 35 years, Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt and his rotating, crackerjack team of rogue agents have been saving the world from annihilation time and time again, skirting death by a hair each time.

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Greene’s crackerjack defense was to insist, “The people criticizing me are not the American people.”

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But it retains its chokehold on pop culture not because of its influence, but its quality; this is a crackerjack thriller, cleverly constructed and directed with quicksilver intensity by the great John McTiernan.

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Above all else, Winkler is a crackerjack researcher, deftly laying out the myriad questions, arguments and mysteries swirling around Shakespeare.

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