crackalackin'
English
Alternative forms
- crack-a-lackin', crack-a-lackin
- crackalackin
- crack-a-lacking
- crackalacking
Etymology
Reduplication of crackin'.
Verb
crackalackin'
- (US, slang) Happening; doing; occurring; working.
- 2003, “Let Me Hear Sumn”, in Love & Hate, performed by Edwin Hayes (Aceyalone):
- What’s poppin’ wit’chu? What’s happenin’? What’s crackalackin’? How you mackin’? You still bad actin’?
- 2003, David K. Williams (Roscoe); Patrick Brown (Sleepy Brown); Ray Murray; Rico Wade (writers), “What I Look Like”, in Young Roscoe Philaphornia, performed by David K. Williams (Roscoe):
- I keep it crackalackin’
I’m all about them plaques and figures
I’m a platinum nigga
- 2005, Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 211:
- “Wuzz crackalackin’?” he says, a homeboy greeting that could mean anything.
- 2007, Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway to Half Way, Mira, →ISBN:
- “[…] I can’t work a calculator without coffee.” […] “One cup. Then I gotta get crack-a-lackin’.”
- 2012, Gena Showalter, Alice in Zombieland (The White Rabbit Chronicles; book 1), Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 201:
- What exactly will be crackalackin at this party? Will her parents be there?
- 2012, Howie Momo, The Biker Chihuahua, →ISBN:
- When we got back with the new recruits, it was time to get crackalackin’; we had a party to get started!
- 2014, M. Anderson, Avian, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- So! What is crackalackin, yo? We there yet?
- 2018, Russ Linton, Crimson Son 3: Ashes, →ISBN:
- "Almost got what you need?" "Oh yeah, crackalackin," he says. "Goin' junior high for that call out?"
- 2021, Michael F. Bird, Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible, Zondervan Reflective, →ISBN:
- If you want to grow in your competence of reading Scripture and have a crackalackin good time doing it, read this book!
- 2022, Jennifer Peaks, Soul Enemy, →ISBN:
- The high-pitched sound of these wicked sirens wailing pierced his ears and made them pop. Hell indeed was crackalackin.
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References
- Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors (2006), “crackalacking, crackalackin’ verb”, in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume I (A–I), Routledge, →ISBN, page 497.