fire·crack·er

(fīr′krăk′ər)

1. A small explosive charge and a fuse in a heavy paper casing, exploded to make noise, as at celebrations.

2. Slang A spirited, quick-tempered, or rambunctious person.

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firecracker

(ˈfaɪəˌkrækə)

a small cardboard container filled with explosive powder and lit by a fuse

adj

impressively energetic: a firecracker start to the race.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

fire•crack•er

(ˈfaɪ^ərˌkræk ər)

n.

a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse and discharged to make a noise, as during a celebration.

[1820–30, Amer.]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

firecracker - firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing

banger, cracker

cannon cracker - a large firecracker

cherry bomb - a red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power

firework, pyrotechnic - (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc.

whizbang, whizzbang - a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion

Translations

petarda

firecracker

[ˈfaɪəˌkrækəʳ] N → petardo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

firecracker

[ˈfaɪə^rkrækə^r] n → pétard mfire crew n → équipe f de pompiersfire damage n → dégâts mpl dûs au feufire department n (US) → régiment m de sapeurs-pompiersfire door n → porte f coupe-feufire drill n → exercice m d'évacuationfire-eater [ˈfaɪəriːtə^r] n (= entertainer) → cracheur m de feufire engine n → voiture f de pompiersfire escape n → escalier m de secoursfire exit n → sortie f de secoursfire extinguisher n → extincteur mfire fighter n (male or female) → pompier m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

firecracker

[ˈfaɪəˌkrækəʳ] n → petardo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my nose and I knocked him sprawling.

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George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and eyelashes.

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The chastened melancholy induced by many months of fetching of pails of water, of scrubbing floors with a mop, and of jumping like a firecracker to avoid excited bees had been purged from him by the lights and the music and the wine.

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In one cabin I notice that all that the five children had to remind them of the coming of Christ was a single bunch of firecrackers, which they had divided among them.

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Then suddenly they gave a shout, all together, and disappeared in a flash into their various houses, the tops of which closed with a series of pops that sounded like a bunch of firecrackers being exploded.

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A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star.

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