CRACKER

cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon

(noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends

firecracker, cracker, banger

(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing

cracker

(noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet

cracker

(noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; “crackers are often mistakenly called hackers”

redneck, cracker

(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

cracker (plural crackers)

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

Synonym: biscuit (UK)

Coordinate terms: biscuit, brittle, cookie, chip, crisp, hardtack, snap, toast, wafer

A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

Synonyms: popper, snapper

A firecracker.

A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).

The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.

Synonym: popper

A Christmas cracker.

Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker

(slang, chiefly, British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).

An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

Synonyms: black-hat hacker, black hat, hacker

Coordinate term: script kiddie

(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

(US, derogatory, racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

Synonyms: corn-cracker, honky, peckerwood, redneck, trailer nigger, trailer trash, white trash, whitey, wonderbread, Thesaurus:white person

(Florida, slang, derogatory) A police officer.

A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.

(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Anagrams

• recrack

Source: Wiktionary

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Crack"er (krk"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 inclossed 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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The pintail duck.

7. pl. (Mach.)

Definition: A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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