Pop vs Crack - What's the difference?
pop | crack | Synonyms |
(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:
A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).
(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.
(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:
A bird, the European redwing.
(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:
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To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
To hit (something or someone).
(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
(label) To ejaculate.
(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(label) To place (something) (somewhere).
* Milton
To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :
To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :
* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :
To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
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(senseid)To form cracks.
To break apart under pressure.
To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
To make a cracking sound.
(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
To make a sharply humorous comment.
To make a crack or cracks in.
To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
To strike forcefully.
To open slightly.
To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative )
To solve a difficult problem.
To overcome a security system or a component.
To cause to make a sharp sound.
* 2001 , Doug McGuinn, The Apple Indians
To tell (a joke).
(transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
(computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
(informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
(obsolete) To brag, boast.
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* Shakespeare
(archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
* Dryden
(senseid)A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A narrow opening.
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A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
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(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
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(informal) An attempt at something.
(vulgar, slang) vagina.
(vulgar) The space between the buttocks.
(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.
* 2001 , William F. Gray, The Villain , iUniverse, p. 214:
* 2004 , Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect , Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news
(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
* Addison
(obsolete) A boast; boasting.
* Burton
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Breach of chastity.
(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
* Shakespeare
(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Highly trained and competent.
Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Pop is a synonym of crack.
As nouns the difference between pop and crack
is that pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert while crack is (senseid)a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.As a verb crack is
(senseid)to form cracks.As an adjective crack is
highly trained and competent.pop
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.Noun
- The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .
Synonyms
* (soda pop) see the list at (m)Derived terms
: (see below)Verb
(popp)- The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
- The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
- Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- He popped a paper into his hand.
- We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
- Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
- The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
- He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
- a trick of popping up and down every moment
- She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .
crack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crakken, craken, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack .
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked .
- Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked .
- The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
- His voice cracked with emotion.
- His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
- "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked .
- The ball cracked the window.
- You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
- She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
- Could you please crack the window?
- They managed to crack him on the third day.
- I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
- It took a minute to crack''' the lock, three minutes to '''crack''' the security system, and about twenty minutes to ' crack the safe.
- They finally cracked the code.
- to crack a whip
- Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy
- The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
- Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
- That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
- I'd love to crack open a beer .
- Cardan cracks that he can cure all diseases with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did most infirmities with one medicine.
- Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack .
- The creditof exchequers cracks , when little comes in and much goes out.
Derived terms
* bumcrack * crack a crib * crack a fat * crack baby * crack down * cracked * cracker * crack house * crack kills * crack of dawn * crack on * crack seed * crack up * crack whore * fall between the cracks * difficult nut to crack * hard nut to crack * tough nut to crack * what's the crack * wisecrackNoun
(en noun)- A large crack had formed in the roadway.
- We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
- Open the door a crack .
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- I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
- I wouldn't use it, if I was going to use it I can afford real cocaine. Crack is wack.
- The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
- The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
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- I'd like to take a crack at that game.
- I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!
- Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
- Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack .
- "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
- By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
- The crack was good.
- That was good crack .
- He/she is quare good crack .
- The party was great crack .
- What's the crack ?
- Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
- Though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack .
- He has a crack .
- I can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
- crack and brags
- vainglorious cracks
- (Shakespeare)
- - 'Tis a noble child.
- A crack , madam.
- I'll be with you in a crack .
Usage notes
* In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling (craic) has been devised.Synonyms
* bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US) * (cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation) crack cocaineEtymology 2
1793 slang, of originAdjective
(-)- Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
- She's a crack shot with that rifle.