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2 N‑UNCOUNT Craftsmanship is the quality that something has when it is beautiful and has been very carefully made. □  His canoes are known for their style, fine detail and craftsmanship.

crafts|people /krɑː ftspiːp ^ə l, kræ ft-/ N‑PLURAL Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands. □  …highly-skilled craftspeople.

crafts|wom|an /krɑː ftswʊmən, kræ fts-/ (craftswomen ) N‑COUNT A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.

crafty /krɑː fti, kræ fti/ (craftier , craftiest ) ADJ If you describe someone as crafty , you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people. □  …a crafty, lying character who enjoys plotting against others. □  A crafty look came to his eyes.

crag /kræ g/ (crags ) N‑COUNT A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain.

crag|gy /kræ gi/

1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A craggy cliff or mountain is steep and rocky. □  …tiny villages on craggy cliffs.

2 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A craggy face has large features and deep lines. □  He's a very small man with a lined, craggy face.

craic /kræ k/ in BRIT, also use crack N‑SING If you are talking about something that you did and you say 'the craic was great', or 'it was a good craic ', you mean that you had a really good time, especially because everyone was talking, joking, and laughing. [IRISH , INFORMAL ] □  They go to the pubs not for the drink alone, but for the crack.

cram /kræ m/ (crams , cramming , crammed )

1 VERB If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. □ [V n prep/adv] While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket. □ [V n + full of ] I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and headed for the coast. □ [V n + with ] She crammed her mouth with caviar.

2 VERB If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. □ [V prep] We crammed into my car and set off. □ [V n] Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried.

3 VERB If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. □ [V + for ] She was cramming for her Economics exam. ●  cram|ming N‑UNCOUNT □  It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam.

crammed /kræ md/

1 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else. □ [+ with/full of ] The house is crammed with priceless furniture and works of art.

2 ADJ If people or things are crammed into a place or vehicle, it is full of them. □ [+ into ] Between two and three thousand refugees were crammed into the church buildings.

cram|mer /kræ mə ^r / (crammers ) N‑COUNT A crammer is a school, teacher, or book which prepares students for an exam by teaching them a lot in a short time. [BRIT ]

cramp /kræ mp/ (cramps , cramping , cramped )

1 N‑UNCOUNT Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time. □ [+ in ] Hillsden was complaining of cramp in his calf muscles. □  She started getting stomach cramps this morning.

2 PHRASE If someone or something cramps your style , their presence or existence restricts your behaviour in some way. [INFORMAL ] □  People think having your dad on tour would cramp your style.