Definition of Crackajacks

1. crackajack [n] - See also: crackajack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackajacks

crack rock
crack seed
crack seeds
crack shot
crack through
crack train
crack trains
crack up
crack willow
crack wise
cracka
crackable
crackajack
crackajacks (current term)
crackas
crackaz
crackback
crackbacks
crackberries
crackberry
crackbrain
crackbrained
crackbrains
crackdown
crackdowns
cracked
cracked-pot resonance
cracked-pot sound

Literary usage of Crackajacks

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

1. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"HIS INDEPENDENCE "It is said by my enemies, and they are many—and some of them are crackajacks, I admit—that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals ..."

2. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"HIS INDEPENDENCE "It is said by my enemies, and they are many—and some of them are crackajacks, I admit—that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals ..."

3. An Angler's Reminiscences: A Record of Sport, Travel and Adventure. With an by Charles Hallock (1913)
"All the parties I have named were pioneer hunters and marksmen of high order as long as forty-five years ago, or more, but the keenest of all crackajacks in ..."

4. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1896)
"Of the men who developed and first appeared this year as crackajacks, there are Kimble, of Louisville, Stevens, Bowler, Kohl. Pike, Oldfield, Mertens ..."

5. Kings of the Queensberry Realm by W. W. Naughton (1902)
"... was greater than that of Sayers, Heenan, Hyer or any of the crackajacks of other years and other eras. He was regarded as the embodiment of all that was ..."

6. Report of the State Water Commission of California by California State Water Commission (1917)
"All growers are not highly efficient; all farmers are not crackajacks. The acid test of the productive value of land is the results obtained by the average ..."

7. Report of the State Water Commission of California by Charles David Marx, William Arthur Johnstone, Albert Edward Chandler, Charles Hamilton Lee, California State Water Commission, California (1917)
"All growers are not highly efficient; all farmers are not crackajacks. The acid test of the productive value of land is the results obtained by the average ..."

8. Aces for Industry by Rufus Steele (1919)
""Don't you see that these other plants are stealing our young crackajacks away?" "Let 'em!" was Haliburton's far-seeing reply. "Please observe that nearly ..."

9. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"HIS INDEPENDENCE "It is said by my enemies, and they are many—and some of them are crackajacks, I admit—that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals ..."

10. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"HIS INDEPENDENCE "It is said by my enemies, and they are many—and some of them are crackajacks, I admit—that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals ..."

11. An Angler's Reminiscences: A Record of Sport, Travel and Adventure. With an by Charles Hallock (1913)
"All the parties I have named were pioneer hunters and marksmen of high order as long as forty-five years ago, or more, but the keenest of all crackajacks in ..."

12. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1896)
"Of the men who developed and first appeared this year as crackajacks, there are Kimble, of Louisville, Stevens, Bowler, Kohl. Pike, Oldfield, Mertens ..."

13. Kings of the Queensberry Realm by W. W. Naughton (1902)
"... was greater than that of Sayers, Heenan, Hyer or any of the crackajacks of other years and other eras. He was regarded as the embodiment of all that was ..."

14. Report of the State Water Commission of California by California State Water Commission (1917)
"All growers are not highly efficient; all farmers are not crackajacks. The acid test of the productive value of land is the results obtained by the average ..."

15. Report of the State Water Commission of California by Charles David Marx, William Arthur Johnstone, Albert Edward Chandler, Charles Hamilton Lee, California State Water Commission, California (1917)
"All growers are not highly efficient; all farmers are not crackajacks. The acid test of the productive value of land is the results obtained by the average ..."

16. Aces for Industry by Rufus Steele (1919)
""Don't you see that these other plants are stealing our young crackajacks away?" "Let 'em!" was Haliburton's far-seeing reply. "Please observe that nearly ..."

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