CRACKING


Meaning of CRACKING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ krækɪŋ ]

1.

You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting. ( BRIT INFORMAL )

It’s a cracking novel...

= great, brilliant

ADJ : usu ADJ n

2.

If you tell someone to get cracking , you are telling them to start doing something immediately. ( BRIT INFORMAL )

Mark, you’d better get cracking, the sooner the better...

PHRASE : get inflects

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