cry crack

verb

To give up; to stop.

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Meanings

verbcry crack (third-person singular simple present cries crack, present participle crying crack, simple past and past participle cried crack)

present singular third person cries crack · participle present crying crack · participle past cried crack · past cried crack

  1. IrelandTo give up; to stop.

    [B]y the holy farmer, he never cried crack till he brought him home drunk as a boiled owl and he said he did it to teach him the evils of alcohol […].

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 293
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APA

cry crack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry%20crack

MLA

“cry crack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry%20crack. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cry crack,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry%20crack.

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