crack a book

verb

Definitions

  1. To open up one's books, especially in order to study.

    • You had better crack the books if you want to have any chance of graduating this year.
    • Of course he didn't even know that the Partition happened in the 1940s, let alone any details of cross-border disputes since then. It's not like that guy ever cracks a book.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crack a book. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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