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Definition 2024
crack_on
crack on
English
Verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic, often with 'with') continue at a (normally uninteresting) task.
- I must crack on with my essay
- 1888, Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris
- What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance?
- To continue apace.
- The project is really cracking on.
- (transitive, dated) To put on.
- to crack on more sail, or more steam