"crack a crib" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-crack a crib.ogg Forms: cracks a crib [present, singular, third-person], cracking a crib [participle, present], cracked a crib [participle, past], cracked a crib [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crack a crib (third-person singular simple present cracks a crib, present participle cracking a crib, simple past and past participle cracked a crib)
  1. (criminal slang, dated) To break into a house. Tags: dated, slang
    Sense id: en-crack_a_crib-en-verb-Yj~DiSwg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "text": "Here in Macedonia I learned that honey is not so successful as one believes, that no bee ever realizes its full intention, and that the perfumer is a clumsy bungler who never cracks the fragile crib he covets, by approaching a town built in the Turkish manner, with a multitude of little gardens, at a time when the sun had been working for many hours on the acacia trees.",
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