- excellent
- That was a cracking goal.
- She's in cracking form at the moment.
- We set off at a cracking pace (= very quickly).
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCracking is used with these nouns:- pace
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Idioms
cracking good (British English, informal)
- extremely good
- a cracking good dinner
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