Cracking
Both words in one sentence
- Dexter has become so comfortable with the notion that he's a monster that he usually just mentions it in passing, cracking Inner Monologue jokes about it.
Source: I Am a Monster -
Apocalyptic Log: One of the radio transmissions in the queue has a skipper warning the dockmasters about the natives attacking passing boats, cracking in and out before being lost in static.
Source: Ride / Jungle Cruise -
It's done in a somewhat more gritty way as, among other things, you can hear his teeth cracking as he clenches them in pain when the current is passing through.
Source: Electric Torture
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