Meanings
alternative crack-a-lackin' · alternative crack-a-lackin · alternative crack-a-lacking · alternative crackalackin · alternative crackalacking
- CanadaUSslangHappening; doing; occurring; working.
What exactly will be crackalackin at this party? Will her parents be there?
2012, Gena Showalter, Alice in Zombieland (The White Rabbit Chronicles; book 1), Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 2015 more examples
What’s poppin’ wit’chu? What’s happenin’? What’s crackalackin’? How you mackin’? You still bad actin’?
2003, “Let Me Hear Sumn”, in Love & Hate, performed by Edwin Hayes (Aceyalone)I keep it crackalackin’ I’m all about them plaques and figures I’m a platinum nigga
2003, David K. Williams (Roscoe), Patrick Brown (Sleepy Brown), Ray Murray, Rico Wade (writers), “What I Look Like”, in Young Roscoe Philaphornia, performed by David K. Williams (Roscoe)“Wuzz crackalackin’?” he says, a homeboy greeting that could mean anything.
2005, Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 211“[…]I can’t work a calculator without coffee.”[…]“One cup. Then I gotta get crack-a-lackin’.”
2007, Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway to Half Way, Mira, →ISBNWhen we got back with the new recruits, it was time to get crackalackin’; we had a party to get started!
2012, Howie Momo, The Biker Chihuahua, →ISBN
Origin
Reduplication of crackin'.
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