Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extraordinarily or exceptionally fine; ‘bang-up.’
- noun Something, as a horse, a bicycle, or the like, that is extraordinarily fine; a ‘bang-up’ thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport.
- noun United States A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
- adjective Slang Of marked ability or excellence.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
crackerjack . - noun Alternative spelling of
crackerjack .
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Examples
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Junior, Simon, and Aaron all became crackajack clockmakers, especially
Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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Sometimes, though, it happens that an order comes for a crackajack fine yarn of the best possible quality and then another combing or carding process follows which takes out everything shorter than fibers of a specified length.
Carl and the Cotton Gin Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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"You've had a lot of experience with housekeeping, aunty, and don't you think," Kennicott appealed, "that it would be sensible to have a nice square house, and pay more attention to getting a crackajack furnace than to all this architecture and doodads?"
Main Street 1920
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"You've had a lot of experience with housekeeping, aunty, and don't you think," Kennicott appealed, "that it would be sensible to have a nice square house, and pay more attention to getting a crackajack furnace than to all this architecture and doodads?"
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Terence Reardon is a crackajack chief engineer, and I want you to remember that the Blue Star Navigation Company needs him in its business quite as much as it needs Michael J. Murphy, and if you two get scrapping I'm not going to take the trouble to investigate and place the blame.
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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Ellabelle was a crackajack housekeeper and had plenty of time to lie out in the hammock and read 'Lucile' of afternoons.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"I am no great judge of the pipes myself, but he strikes me as a crackajack and I shouldn't be surprised if he would make you all sit up."
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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“that it would be sensible to have a nice square house, and pay more attention to getting a crackajack furnace than to all this architecture and doodads?”
Main Street 2004
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When they finally returned to the Warrens 'modest house, the wily chauffeur, looking after them as they walked along the nasturtium-bordered path that led to the porch, winked the wink of one on the inside, and smiled broadly as he murmured: "She's a crackajack!
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Doris plays the guitar and has a pleasing voice, and just for good measure I threw in a crackajack cabinet phonograph and a hundred records with enough sentimental drip to sink the schooner. "
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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