craic

[ krak ]

noun

Often the craic . fun and entertainment, especially good conversation and company: Come for the beer, lads, and stay for the craic!
mischievous fun; laughs: We did it just for the craic.

Origin of craic

First recorded in 1970–75; from Irish, from English crack, in the originally American sense of “wisecrack,” or from the Scottish English and northern English dialect sense “chat, gossip”

Words Nearby craic

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How to use craic in a sentence

At Strathdown (eighteenth century) the witches went along the side of the river Avon to craic-pol-nain, fording the river on foot.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe | Margaret Alice Murray

British Dictionary definitions for craic

craic

/ (kræk) /

noun

an Irish spelling of crack (def. 31)

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