What is the meaning of Cracker?

  • (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
  • (n.) The pintail duck.
  • (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
  • (n.) One who or that which, cracks.
  • (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
  • (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
  • (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
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MLAWebster's. "cracker" 27 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/cracker/definitions/1992575>
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