Crack
German (Berlin)
/krɛk/
noun
Definitions
- (sport) crack
- (colloquial) highly trained and competent person
- (equestrianism) successful racehorse
Etymology
Borrowed from English crack (highly skilled, excellent).
Origin
English
crack
Gloss
highly skilled, excellent
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticrack English
- buttcrack English
- crack English
- crack shot English
- crack-hemp English
- crack-rope English
- crackability English
- crackable English
- crackback English
- crackbrain English
- crackbrained English
- crackerjack English
- crackest English
- cracketh English
- crackfic English
- crackhead English
- crackhouse English
- crackjaw English
- crackle English
- crackless English
- cracklet English
- cracklike English
- crackmeter English
- crackpipe English
- crackpot English
- crackproof English
- crackship English
- cracksman English
- cracky English
- craic English
- hydrocrack English
- macrocrack English
- microcrack English
- mudcrack English
- nutcrack English
- outcrack English
- precrack English
- recrack English
- suncrack English
- thundercrack English
- tocrack English
- whipcrack English
- wisecrack English
- crack Finnish
- kräkki Finnish
- craccare Italian
- crack French
- крэк Russian
- crack Spanish, Castilian
- crack Portuguese
- crak Middle English
- crakken Middle English
- craic Irish
- crac Welsh