crack vs hole

crack

verb
  • To make a crack or cracks in. 

  • To change rapidly in register. 

  • To become debilitated by psychological pressure. 

  • To form cracks. 

  • To make a cracking sound. 

  • To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. 

  • To make a sharply humorous comment. 

  • To open slightly. 

  • To overcome a security system or component. 

  • To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. 

  • To break apart under force, stress, or pressure. 

  • To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. 

  • To strike forcefully. 

  • To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. 

  • To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. 

  • To tell (a joke). 

  • To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. 

  • To solve a difficult problem. 

  • To cause to make a sharp sound. 

  • To realize that one is transgender. 

  • To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent). 

  • To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. 

adj
  • Highly trained and competent. 

  • Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch. 

noun
  • An attempt at something. 

  • A sharp, resounding blow. 

  • The tone of voice when changed at puberty. 

  • A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software. 

  • Vagina. 

  • The space between the buttocks. 

  • A narrow opening. 

  • Any sharp sound. 

  • A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. 

  • A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. 

  • a meaningful chat. 

  • Something good-tasting or habit-forming. 

  • Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose. 

  • Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company. 

  • The sharp sound made when solid material breaks. 

  • Business; events; news. 

  • Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe. 

hole

verb
  • To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. 

  • To go into a hole. 

  • To make holes in (an object or surface). 

  • To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. 

  • To destroy. 

noun
  • An undesirable place to live or visit. 

  • A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other. 

  • An excavation pit or trench. 

  • A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is. 

  • A container or receptacle. 

  • Difficulty, in particular, debt. 

  • In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. 

  • The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. 

  • Sex, or a sex partner. 

  • A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. 

  • Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. 

  • The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. 

  • A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure. 

  • An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent. 

  • A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity. 

  • A chordless cycle in a graph. 

  • A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. 

  • A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass. 

  • In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. 

  • An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth. 

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