CRACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cracked mean? 

• CRACKED (adjective)
  The adjective CRACKED has 3 senses:

1. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

2. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

3. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

  Familiarity information: CRACKED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRACKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

Synonyms:

chapped; cracked; roughened

Context example:

chapped lips

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

Synonyms:

alligatored; cracked

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Synonyms:

around the bend; balmy; barmy; bats; batty; bonkers; buggy; cracked; crackers; daft; dotty; fruity; haywire; kookie; kooky; loco; loony; loopy; nuts; nutty; round the bend; wacky; whacky

Context example:

it used to drive my husband balmy

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 Context examples 

Systemic disease primarily of infants and young children, characterized by skin rash, swelling of hands and feet, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, strawberry tongue, dry and cracked lips, high fevers, and coronary artery disease.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Lord John's rifle cracked, and the king sank down, a tangled red sprawling thing, upon the ground.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The plump young man led us to a spot where the top of one of the wooden rails had been cracked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You’re too late. She’s my wife. No, she’s your widow. His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley’s waistcoat.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It can reduce healing time of cracked, dry skin on hands, elbows, and knees, and helps prevent diaper rash.

(Petrolatum-Mineral Oil-Lanolin-Ceresin Ointment, NCI Thesaurus)

The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“His rights would be a long drop and a cracked spine,” Sir Lothian answered, and then, changing his manner suddenly, he laid his hand upon my uncle’s sleeve.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For the rest, it was cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A floating fleck of paint is thought to have cracked a window on the International Space Station.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

The floor was seemingly inches deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)