cracker
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Definitions ofcracker
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
Synonyms: biscuit
- 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.
- A firecracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- A Christmas cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Example: "She's an absolute cracker!"
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Synonyms: "black hat", "black-hat hacker", hacker
- A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- (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
- (Florida) A police officer.
- A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
- A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
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