[The vb. stem so used.]

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  1.  adv. With a crack, with a cracking sound. (Cf. bang, bump, etc.)

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1767.  S. Paterson, Another Trav., II. 18. Crack! went the whip, and away flew the horses!

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1807.  Southey, Espriella’s Lett., II. 269. Crack went his whip, and we were off.

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1892.  Sat. Rev., 2 July, 10/2. Crack went the mast.

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  2.  int.

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1698.  Vanbrugh, Æsop, II. i. I’se get our wife Joan to be the queen’s chambermaid; and then—crack says me I! and forget all my acquaintance.

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1756.  Amory, Buncle (1770), II. 3. Crack! all is gone and vanished on a sudden.

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