To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]
Crack, v. i. 1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
Boyle.
The mirror cracked from side to side.
Tennyson.