"crack on" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "cracking on",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cracked on",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cracked on",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Naked Twister will have to wait. I must crack on with my essay.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris:",
          "text": "What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:",
          "text": "Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?\nGene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, “Select Committee wants electrification at the heart of low-carbon initiative”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:",
          "text": "\"We strongly urge the Government to crack on with projects for electrifying lines throughout the UK or identify alternative lower-carbon motive power solutions.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue at a task briskly or promptly."
      ],
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      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic, often with 'with') To continue at a task briskly or promptly."
      ],
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        "with 'with'"
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The project is really cracking on.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 51:",
          "text": "We crack on eastbound, passing the station at Worksop and that at Retford Low Level (I'm following the route with great interest thanks to my Quail atlas).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue apace."
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to crack on more sail, or more steam"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put on."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To put on."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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          "text": "They need to crack on those drug dealers.",
          "type": "example"
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      "glosses": [
        "To crack down on or arrest (someone)."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To crack down on or arrest (someone)."
      ],
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      "_dis1": "42 49 6 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
      "word": "sich ranhalten"
    },
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      "_dis1": "42 49 6 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "hinmachen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "42 49 6 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
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        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "sich sputen"
    }
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  "word": "crack on"
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      "form": "cracks on",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cracking on",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cracked on",
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        "past"
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      "form": "cracked on",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "Naked Twister will have to wait. I must crack on with my essay.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris:",
          "text": "What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:",
          "text": "Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?\nGene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, “Select Committee wants electrification at the heart of low-carbon initiative”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:",
          "text": "\"We strongly urge the Government to crack on with projects for electrifying lines throughout the UK or identify alternative lower-carbon motive power solutions.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue at a task briskly or promptly."
      ],
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        [
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          "continue"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic, often with 'with') To continue at a task briskly or promptly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with 'with'"
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "often"
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        {
          "text": "The project is really cracking on.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 51:",
          "text": "We crack on eastbound, passing the station at Worksop and that at Retford Low Level (I'm following the route with great interest thanks to my Quail atlas).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue apace."
      ]
    },
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        "English dated terms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to crack on more sail, or more steam"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put on."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To put on."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "They need to crack on those drug dealers.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To crack down on or arrest (someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crack down on",
          "crack down on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To crack down on or arrest (someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
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    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
      "word": "sich ranhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "hinmachen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "continue doing something, especially with more effort than before",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "sich sputen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crack on"
}