crackling
Americannoun
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the making of slight cracking sounds rapidly repeated.
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the crisp browned skin or rind of roast pork.
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Southern U.S. Usually cracklings. the crisp residue left when fat, especially hog or chicken fat, is rendered.
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Etymology
Origin of crackling
Example Sentences
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The distress channel of his maritime radio was crackling with the pleas of seafarers among the 20,000 still stranded on cargo ships and tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Mr. Ireland writes crackling, funny dialogue that gradually exposes greater rifts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
But amid all that crackling electricity, everything around Marty begins to blur.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
The show might not have the crackling vitality of “Hamilton” or the bluesy poignancy of “The Scottsboro Boys.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
Helmuth hears it in the crackling gray ice floes that drift through the rivers and narrow canals.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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