Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Half-demented; half-witted.
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Examples
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Martin stood his ground and Lena realized she sounded half-cracked.
NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010
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And while she looked like Pallas Athene, I suspected she was half-cracked - flung herself about in gymnasiums and went on starvation diets and wrote poetry and asked for a lunatic asylum as a birthday present, so I'd been told.
Watershed 2010
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Sometimes I fall asleep with one eye half-cracked open, watching for the blinky-blink of my BlackBerry beside me.
Leah Finnegan: Electric Sundown: How I Turned Off My BlackBerry And Found Peace 2010
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Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war.
Gog and Magog. Good Grief, george . . . . West End Bob 2009
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Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war.
Archive 2009-08-01 Dave 2009
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"We all know that a Jew is determined by their mother," he half-cracked.
John Hood: "Seinfeld" Actor Jason Alexander Rallies Jewish Voters in Crucial Swing-State Florida 2008
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It appears that my relatives and friends think I am sort of half-cracked for having moved here and do not relate to my strong feelings about the needs and desires of the Méxican people (as much as I understand).
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“He is certainly half-cracked, but it is impossible not to be charmed by the honesty and simplicity of his character.”
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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“He is certainly half-cracked, but it is impossible not to be charmed by the honesty and simplicity of his character.”
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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“He is certainly half-cracked, but it is impossible not to be charmed by the honesty and simplicity of his character.”
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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