crack-trystn.
/ˈkraktrɪst/, U.S. /ˈkrækˌtrɪst/, Scottish English /ˈkraktrɪst/, /ˈkraktrʌist/ Scottish.
One who ‘cracks’ or breaks tryst (see crack v. 12); one who fails to fulfil an engagement.
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1817 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) I. 113 Thou shalt be punished as a crack-tryst.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1817- to take a loose
- to take a lot out of
- to take a lot out of a person
- to take a lowe
- to take a maddie
- to take a maidenhead
- to take a medicine
- to take a message
- to take a mickey finn
- to take a miff
- to take a mope
- to take a muster
- to take a nap
- to take a niff
- to take a note
- to take a notes
- to take a or one's flight
- to take a or the back seat
- to take a or the fray
- to take a or the trick
- to take a page from
- to take a page from a person
- to take a page from a person's book
- to take a page from a thing
- to take a page out of another's playbook