cracker

crack·er  (krkr)

n.

1. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.

2. One that cracks, especially:

a. A firecracker.

b. A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.

c. The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.

d. One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.

3. Offensive

a. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.

b. Used as a disparaging term for a white person.

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cracker [ˈkrækə]

n

1. (Group Games / Games, other than specified) a decorated cardboard tube that emits a bang when pulled apart, releasing a toy, a joke, or a paper hat

2. short for firecracker

3. (Cookery) a thin crisp biscuit, usually unsweetened

4. a person or thing that cracks

5. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (Social Science / Peoples) US another word for poor White

6. Brit slang a thing or person of notable qualities or abilities

not worth a cracker Austral and NZ informal worthless; useless

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Cracker a bundle of small wood; a small parcel of sweets.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cracker - a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked saltine - a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking soda cracker - unsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of tartar oyster cracker - a small dry usually round cracker water biscuit - a thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese graham cracker - semisweet whole-wheat cracker pretzel - glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
	2.	cracker - a poor White person in the southern United States redneck rustic - an unsophisticated country person
	3.	cracker - a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers" coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineer - a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
	4.	cracker - firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing firecracker, banger 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
	5.	cracker - a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends cracker bonbon, snapper party favor, party favour, favour, favor - souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

Translations

cracker [ˈkrækəʳ] N

1. (= firework) → buscapiés m inv

2. (also Christmas cracker) → sorpresa f (navideña)

3. (= biscuit) → galleta f salada, crácker m

4. (Brit) a cracker of a game → un partido fenomenal

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cracker [ˈkrækə^r] n

(= firework) → pétard m

(= biscuit) → biscuit m salé, cracker m

(British) to be a cracker → être super >
a cracker of a ... → un(e) ... formidable
a cracker of a story → une histoire formidable

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cracker

n

(= biscuit) → Kräcker m

(= firecracker) → Knallkörper m; (= Christmas cracker) → Knallbonbon nt

crackers pl (= nut crackers) → Nussknacker m

(Brit inf) (= woman) → tolle Frau (inf); (= man) → toller Mann (inf); (= thing) → tolles Ding (inf)

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cracker [ˈkrækəʳ] n

a. (biscuit) → cracker m inv

b. (firework) → petardo; (Christmas cracker) specie di mortaretto natalizio con sorpresa

c. (Brit) (fam) (girl, dress, car) → schianto
a cracker of a ... → un(a) ...formidabile

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