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craic

[ krak ]

noun

  1. Often the craic. fun and entertainment, especially good conversation and company:

    Come for the beer, lads, and stay for the craic!

  2. mischievous fun; laughs:

    We did it just for the craic.



craic

/ kræk /

noun

  1. an Irish spelling of crack
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of craic1

First recorded in 1970–75; from Irish, from English crack, in the originally American sense of “wisecrack,” or from the Scottish English and northern English dialect sense “chat, gossip”
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Example Sentences

At Strathdown (eighteenth century) the witches went along the side of the river Avon to Craic-pol-nain, fording the river on foot.

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