About The Word Cracker
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Cracker
Cracker Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cracker?
[n] a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
[n] firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [n] a thin crisp wafer made or flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet [n] a poor white person in the southern US Synonyms | Synonyms for Cracker: banger | cracker bonbon | firecracker | redneck | snapper Related Terms | Find terms related to Cracker: backwoodsman | biscuit | boiler factory | boiler room | bone | briar-hopper | brush ape | Brussels biscuit | bull-roarer | bushman | catcall | cherry bomb | clack | clacker | clam digger | clapper | cricket | desert rat | dust | firecracker | forester | frontiersman | graham cracker | hardtack | hillbilly | hinterlander | horn | Klaxon | Melba toast | mountain man | mountaineer | mummy | noisemaker | parchment | pilot biscuit | piny | pretzel | rattle | rattlebox | redneck | ridge runner | rusk | saltine | sea biscuit | ship biscuit | sinker | siren | snapper | soda cracker | steam whistle | stick | ticktack | wafer | whistle | whizgig | whizzer | woodlander | woodman | woodsman | zwieback See Also | bread | breadstuff | cannon cracker | cherry bomb | favor | favour | firework | graham cracker | oyster cracker | party favor | party favour | pretzel | pyrotechnics | rustic | saltine | soda cracker | staff of life | water biscuit | whizbang | whizzbang Cracker In Webster's Dictionary \Crack"er\ (kr[a^]k"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, cracks.
2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.]
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
--Shak.
3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed
in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with
a sharp noise; -- often called {firecracker}.
4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston
cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster
cracker.
5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the
Southern United States. --Bartlett.
6. (Zo["o]l.) The pintail duck.
7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding
caoutchouc. --Knight.
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