Crackajack
[krak-uh-jak] /ˈkræk əˌdʒæk/
noun, adjective
1.
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modifier
: He estimates that a crackerjack examiner working under optimum conditions would find 10 to 15 percent of his cases to be inconclusive/ I’m a crackerjack story teller
noun
A person or thing that is remarkable, wonderful, superior, etc: Signorelli is a crackerjack
[late 1880s+; origin uncertain; perhaps a fanciful extension of cracker in the mid-19th-century British sense ”something approaching perfection,” which is also reflected in terms like crack shot, crack troops, etc, and based on an echoic expression of speed; hence also cracking; the term is reinforced in the US by late 19th-century trademark Cracker Jack for a popcorn and peanut confection]
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