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Definition of Cracker

1. Noun. A thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.

2. Noun. A poor White person in the southern United States.

3. Noun. A programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things. "Crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"

4. Noun. Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing.

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

Definition of Cracker

1. n. One who, or that which, cracks.

Definition of Cracker

1. Noun. A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit. ¹

2. Noun. 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''. ¹

3. Noun. A firecracker. ¹

4. Noun. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). ¹

5. Noun. A Christmas cracker ¹

6. Noun. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a ''cat-cracker'' ¹

7. Noun. (chiefly British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack). ¹

8. Noun. (computing) One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions. ¹

9. Noun. (US pejorative racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; ''by extension:'' any white person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cracker

1. a thin, crisp biscuit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cracker

crackberry crackbrain crackbrained crackbrains crackdown crackdowns cracked cracked-pot resonance cracked-pot sound cracked-wheat bread

cracked a book cracked heel cracked tooth syndrome cracked wheat crackedness cracker (current term) cracker-barrel cracker-jack cracker bonbon cracker box

cracker crumbs crackerberries crackerberry crackerbox crackerboxes crackerjack crackerjacks crackerless

Literary usage of Cracker

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

1. Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"CHAPTER IV THE cracker INDUSTRY IT is a far cry from a pan of biscuits in a ... Individual bread baking is still with us, but individual cracker baking has ..."

2. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"A two - handled cracker jar, made at this factory, is worthy of illustration. The body ground is polished ivory. The ornamentation consists of corn-flower ..."

3. Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster (1913)
"He planted cotton, rice and corn, And then a patch of backer: That was the first beginning, Of the Real Georgia cracker. Then he got some mules and plows, ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"cracker Company and to have been dictated by "LD Lowe, Prest." This letter contained a statement as to the financial condition of the cracker company. ..."

5. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"Boston cracker. ... Scald milk, and add cracker rolled and sifted. Cook five minutes in double boiler. Season. ..."

6. In Vinculis: Or, The Prisoner of War, Being the Experience of a Rebel in Two by Anthony M. Keiley (1866)
"cracker-box houses.—A prison adventure.—Prison ingenuity.—The washerwomen. ... Top-boots and a cracker-box house filled the measure of any genuine Point ..."

7. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1845 He then called up the bailiff, a tremendous looking cracker, ... 1845 Now, called out the clown, if you want to see a cracker's head cracked. ..."

8. Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"CHAPTER IV THE cracker INDUSTRY IT is a far cry from a pan of biscuits in a ... Individual bread baking is still with us, but individual cracker baking has ..."

9. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"A two - handled cracker jar, made at this factory, is worthy of illustration. The body ground is polished ivory. The ornamentation consists of corn-flower ..."

10. Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster (1913)
"He planted cotton, rice and corn, And then a patch of backer: That was the first beginning, Of the Real Georgia cracker. Then he got some mules and plows, ..."

11. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"cracker Company and to have been dictated by "LD Lowe, Prest." This letter contained a statement as to the financial condition of the cracker company. ..."

12. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"Boston cracker. ... Scald milk, and add cracker rolled and sifted. Cook five minutes in double boiler. Season. ..."

13. In Vinculis: Or, The Prisoner of War, Being the Experience of a Rebel in Two by Anthony M. Keiley (1866)
"cracker-box houses.—A prison adventure.—Prison ingenuity.—The washerwomen. ... Top-boots and a cracker-box house filled the measure of any genuine Point ..."

14. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1845 He then called up the bailiff, a tremendous looking cracker, ... 1845 Now, called out the clown, if you want to see a cracker's head cracked. ..."

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