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vb. (context idiomatic English) To attempt or try.
Usage examples of "take a crack at".
Asked same Chinee engineers who had built laser guns to take a crack at problem of intercepting bombs or missiles—.
Asked same Chinee engineers who had built laser guns to take a crack at problem of intercepting bombs or missiles--one same problem save that a missile comes at you faster.
Maybe I relished a chance to take a crack at anything as dirty as the slave trade and this was my wayI'm too old and fat to do it any other way.
Settle that and we'll take a crack at denning a superman or New Man, konw novis, who must displace homo sapiens is displacing him because he is better able to survive than is homo sap.
Settle that and we'll take a crack at defining a superman-or New Man, homo novis, who must displace homo sapiens-is displacing him-because he is better able to survive than is homo sap.
Maybe I relished a chance to take a crack at anything as dirty as the slave trade and this was my way—.
Maybe I relished a chance to take a crack at anything as dirty as the slave trade and this was my way -- I'm too old and fat to do it any other way.
Asked same Chinee engineers who had built laser guns to take a crack at problem of intercepting bombs or missilesone same problem save that a missile comes at you faster.
If you someday find it necessary to start rejecting my stuff, I expect to take a crack at some other forms, slick perhaps, and book-form novels, and in particular a nonfiction book on finance and money theory which I have wanted to do for a tong time, also some articles on various economic and social problems.