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Cracker   /krˈækər/   Listen
noun
Cracker  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, cracks.
2.
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. (Obs.) "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?"
3.
A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; usually called firecracker.
4.
A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
5.
A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
6.
(Zool.) The pintail duck.
7.
pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Cracker" Quotes from Famous Books



... launch say, distinctly, "There's a Florida cracker alongside who says a hurricane is about due." The shrill roar of the rain drowned the voice. Haltren bent to his oars again. Then a young man in dripping white flannels looked out of the wheel-house and hailed him. "We've grounded on the meadows twice. If you know the channel you'd better come aboard ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers
... papers from home was the event of the day. We noticed that Bladburn neither wrote nor received any letters. When the rest of the boys were scribbling away for dear life, with drumheads and knapsacks and cracker-boxes for writing-desks, he would sit serenely smoking his pipe, but looking out on us through rings of smoke with a face expressive ...
— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various
... be persuaded that this was a foolish idea, until Aunt Judy asked her how she would like to be introduced to a couple of VERY old women, with huge hooked noses, and beardy, nut-cracker chins, and be told that THOSE were the motherless little girls who had broken their hearts over rabbits' tails!—an inquiry which tickled No. 6's fancy immensely, so that she began to laugh, and suggest a few ...
— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty
... make unleavened bread the flour is moistened and worked into a stiff dough, which is then rolled thin, cut into various shapes, and baked, forming a brittle biscuit or cracker. ...
— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value • Harry Snyder
... cracker was hissing and spitting out smoke barely two feet ahead of the terrified horses in ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman


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