cracking
- adjective
- /ˈkrækɪŋ/
- UK
:
fantástico
- I thought what a cracking piece of advice.
I thought what a cracking piece of advice.
- I thought what a cracking piece of advice.
- It was more Mannheim, Heidelberg, like the other side that was really, really cracking.
- She's fucking awesome, as well as being like cracking looking so.
- And the next guy's like, hello, just cracking.
Examples
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Well, with researching some really, really cracking albums, Mark has a really interesting question.
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I've got a cracking question here, Robbie, right?
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So I think it's tough to like pick someone cracking this and like actually starting to turn over market share and get into what Apple's doing.
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And it's just a really cracking idea where it is my phone, I'm looking at the homepage and I can see Amazon, Barclays, London Stock Exchange.
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He put together a cracking blend of scatter, butyric, valeric and caproic acids.
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That was a cracking performance by the team, and they deserved to win the trophy.
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She gave a cracking presentation that impressed everyone in the audience.
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The restaurant serves cracking dishes that keep customers coming back for more.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good or excellent in quality
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
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7.9
Used informally to mean completely or very much
188
7.0
Very good and impressive
134
3.0
Better than expected and quite good
66
7.3
Very good and enjoyable
60
8.8
Very stylish and liked by many people
42
6.0
Being clever and useful, often small and attractive
24
6.7
Very good and impressive
24
6.9
Very good and pleasant, with no problems
16
7.8
Very good and of high quality
7
6.9
Very good and impressive
2
9.9
Very good or excellent in old, joking speech
1
9.3
Very good and pleasing to people
Very good and fun to experience
Very good, enjoyable, and attractive in a lively way
Very good and enjoyable
Very good and large, often used for a meal or party
Very good and exciting, like a fun party or great goal
Very good and enjoyable
Very skilled at a particular activity
Very good and enjoyable
People use it in Britain to say something is very good
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cracking meaning 'excellent' comes from the verb crack, which used to mean a loud, sharp hit and then a very skilled person, as in a 'crack shot'. So, something called cracking feels striking and impressive, which is why it means 'very good'.