"crack a smile" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-crack a smile.ogg [Australia] Forms: cracks a smile [present, singular, third-person], cracking a smile [participle, present], cracked a smile [participle, past], cracked a smile [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crack a smile (third-person singular simple present cracks a smile, present participle cracking a smile, simple past and past participle cracked a smile)
  1. (idiomatic) To smile, especially while attempting not to. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-crack_a_smile-en-verb--SQlLI5w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English predicates: 56 44 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 84 16
  2. (idiomatic) To begin to smile. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-crack_a_smile-en-verb-NFYyGoxw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: crack a book, crack a fat, crack a joke, crack a window

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