Definition of Firecrackers

1. Noun. (plural of firecracker) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Firecrackers

1. firecracker [n] - See also: firecracker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firecrackers

firebrat
firebrats
firebreak
firebreaks
firebreather
firebreathers
firebrick
firebricks
firebug
firebugs
firecall
fireclay
fireclays
firecracker
firecrackers (current term)
firecrest
firecrests
fired
fired away
fired off
fired up
firedamp
firedamps
firedog
firedogs
firedrake
firedrakes
firee
fireeater

Literary usage of Firecrackers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Wonderful Progress: The World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works : a Vast by Trumbull White (1902)
"Even the Chinese have fallen behind in the manufacture of firecrackers and ... Nowadays boys care little for the small firecrackers which formerly came only ..."

2. China Inside Out by George Amos Miller (1917)
"firecrackers AND RELIGION We were making about three miles per hour along the ancient "paved" highway between Foo- chow and ..."

3. Charter and Ordinances by Ann Arbor (Mich.). (1908)
"An Ordinance Prohibiting the Firing, or Setting Off, and the Sale or Offering for Sale of Toy Pistols, Dynamite firecrackers, Cannon firecrackers, ..."

4. The Chronicle Fire Tables for 1897 (1897)
"... Engines and boilers 6 Forest fires 5 Bonfires 4 firecrackers 4 Ashes Accidents (not otherwise reported) Carelessness (not otherwise reported) Fireworks ..."

5. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"As we gathered next to the house, the Indian man reached into his brown paper bag and pulled out a wad of firecrackers. Then he bummed a cigarette from ..."

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