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crack
1. v. To break into a system (compare cracker ). 2. v. Action of removing
the copy protection from a commercial program. People who write cracks
consider themselves challenged by the copy protection measures. They will
often do it as much to show that they are smarter than the developer who
designed the copy protection scheme than to actually copy the program. 3. n.
A program, instructions or patch used to remove the copy protection of a
program or to uncripple features from a demo/time limited program. 4. An
exploit.