Definition of "cracker"
- noun
A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory 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).
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.
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
The pintail duck.
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; by extension: any white person.
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