The party was great craic.
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Craic
//kɹæk//
Synonyms for "craic" (2 found)
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Irish
1 entries- craic noun (amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company (cognates) — see also amusement, fun)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- crac noun (amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company (cognates) — see also amusement, fun)
- craic noun (amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company (cognates) — see also amusement, fun)
Sample sentences
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‘It is a great atmosphere, isn’t it?’ Leon was enthusiastic, not at all cryptic or withdrawn, wholeheartedly enjoying the ‘craic’, as he called it, slapping his hand on the table in time to the bodhrán rhythm from the group singing itself hoarse and unharmonious on the stage.
Source: wiktionary
"The craic" is how the Irish celebrate life – with music, with laughter, with joy, with old friends (and new friends just waiting to be made). […] Be careful. "The craic" is mighty!
Source: wiktionary
Most Irish people, you see, when asked to name their preferred aspect of living in Ireland, will instance "the crack". "The crack", which is sometimes annoyingly conveyed in the Irish-language spelling "craic", is a quintessentially Irish indicator of what in other cultures translates roughly as "fun" – except that the crack is much more than fun.
Source: wiktionary
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