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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.





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"Cracker" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his work, when he was not cleaning up or running errands, was the sorting of fruit and the cracking of sugar. Every nail of his fingers has come off more than once on account of the damage done them by the sugar-cracker. Better than any national event, he recollects the introduction of cube sugar. "When they tubs o' ready-cracked sugar fust come'd down to Seacombe, 'twer thought a gert ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... an old Mary Carey; she married a Spencer. She was pointed out to me last time I was at home—the nut-cracker type, ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... is great! She's a peach!" he agreed. "That hat is a cracker jack! It looks like a pigeon's wing. I like it; don't you, Cloudy? But say, Leslie, she's something more than a beauty. She's a good scout. That's what she is. Do you realize she hasn't opened her lips about the car ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... herself was excluded, rilled her with speculation. If he could forego these functions, how full and gay she argued his former life must have been. His attitude helped her to bear the deprivations more easily. And she, as a loyal child of the army, liked him also because he was no "cracker-box" captain, but a fighter, who had fought with no morbid ideas as to the rights or wrongs of the cause, but for the ...
— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis
... as he dropped the lid of the cracker box with a bang, "You'll not be bothered with him long if you are really ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright


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