theCraic

[keitra]

What does the Craic mean?

[Rabelais]

The Craic is irish for fun, entertainment or amusement. normally said as How's the Craic? or Where's the Craic?

[sft42]

Usually appiled to pub culture if the craic is good it's said to be "mighty" or for some obscure reason "ninety".

[banana]

Used in general speech "whats the craic?" means "whats going on ?"

[FredPuli]

And ,being Gaelic, it ain't pronounced how it looks to the English. The word sounds like 'crack'.

[FredPuli]

I should add that strictly it means 'chat' which is how old people still use it. The meaning has got stretched in fairly modern times. It's easy to see how. No Irishman is having a good time in a pub or a party unless the conversation is truly witty or absurdly 'Irish'; but foreigners and young Irish people, with no Gaelic, have understood it to mean fun in general .