A mixture of baking soda and cocaine in solid form that is smoked in a pipe as a narcotic.

A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. / The edible red berry of that shrub. / An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.

(anatomy) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.

(cooking, often in the plural, US) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens / (cooking, in the singular in Britain) The crispy rind of roast pork.

Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

present participle of crackle

A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound. / (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.

(intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.

(slang) Strange, weird, odd. / Sick; unwell. / (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.