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[jack]

Which do you use more often? "Crack" as in "gain unauthorised access to a computer system" or "crack" as in "craic; what it is that's up, fun, mischeif, or a night out"? :)

(Inspired by my comment here.)

Comments

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

Most often, I use "crack" as in "They must be on"

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yes, indeed. In my informal summary I had three different cocaine-related usages (literal, addictive, and stupidcrazy). "Crack up" in the sense of laughter won, though.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Me three.

[claroscuro.livejournal.com]

And me.

Also same meaning in other phrases, like: "What have you been smoking, crack?"

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I don't use either; I use something closer to the first one, however, when talking about cracks for games (as in the sense here: http://pc-game-cracks.mosw.com/ ).

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! Though, agh -- I'm not sure where to draw the line between different meanings; "open" and "break" and "get out" and "hack into" and "decrypt" and "remove copy protection" are all intertwined, are they all different...?

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

Yes, and also No, which is to say "Possibly", depending on ... what's a coherent way of saying "resolution of the analysis" for non-analytical conversations?

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Lexical semantics often get messy like this :-) I'm not sure you can really draw clear lines, especially when usages are constantly changing over time, and varying across social groups anyway!

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

If I use it at all, it'll be in a context something like "a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit" :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's awfully specific... should I be worried? :)