Beat
Cracking
Cracking adjective - Of the very best kind.
Both words in one sentence
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And after you beat the exoskeleton, you need to use Iji's kicking and cracking skills to deliver the final blow.
Source: Video Game / Iji -
Also, in Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now, the main characters, Bryon and Mark, cut off Bryon's ex-girlfriend's hair after she recruits a guy to beat up Ponyboy (who rejected her advances) and he ends up cracking Mark over the head with a busted bottle.
Source: Traumatic Haircut
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