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- (British English, informal) something that you think is very good, funny, etc. It was a cracker of a goal. I've got a joke for you. It's a real cracker! (North American English, slang, offensive) an offensive word for a poor white person with little education from the southern US
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A cracker is a snack. It’s a thin, savory, crisp biscuit, like a saltine. It’s also anything that cracks, like a firecracker or a computer code cracker, or of course, that thin, savory snack that cracks when you break it.
- Firecracker
firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in...
- Graham Cracker
semisweet whole-wheat cracker. a thin crisp wafer made of...
- Saltine
a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking. a thin crisp...
- Soft Pretzel
a pretzel made of soft bread. DISCLAIMER: These example...
- Cherry Bomb
a red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power
- Soda Cracker
unsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of...
- Whizzbang
a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound...
- Redneck
a poor White person in the southern United States
- Firecracker
a person who gets into other people's computer systems without permission in order to do something illegal: Holes in software programs provide another avenue for crackers to attack. They are passionate programmers who modify software with creative code, as opposed to crackers who break into computer systems. Compare.
Synonyms for CRACKER: hacker, cyberpunk, techie, computerist, technocrat, geek, gearhead, phisher; Antonyms of CRACKER: technophobe, computerphobe.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person in the South, especially a poor white living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S.
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed towards white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative , it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida cracker and ...
A cracker is a hollow cardboard tube covered with coloured paper. Crackers make a loud noise when they are pulled apart and usually contain a small toy and a paper hat. In Britain they are used mainly at Christmas.
Cracker is always disparaging and offensive when used to refer to a poor white person in the South; the word in this sense often implies that the person is regarded as ignorant or uneducated. When used by Black people, cracker can refer to a Southern white racist, not necessarily poor or rural.
