cracky
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Smit-McPhee, now 16, worked on the film in 2010 while his voice was breaking and becoming "really cracky and weird."
From Reuters ● Aug. 15, 2012
All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
All of a sudden he give me a wireless shock—out o' nowhere, you might say—an' well, by cracky, I thought it was all over.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
By cracky, I never heard of such a thing in my life.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
As the farmer turns his back, he Hears the mill go "creaky! cracky!"
From Max and Maurice a juvenile history in seven tricks by Charles Timothy Brooks
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