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cracker (krak′ər)

noun

  1. a person or device that cracks
  2. a firecracker
  3. a little paper roll used as a favor at parties: it contains a trinket or candy, and bursts with a popping noise when the ends are pulled
  4. a thin, crisp wafer or biscuit
  5. ☆ poor white: contemptuous term
  6. Informal a person born or living in Florida or Georgia: a humorous usage

Etymology: < crack, ; crackersense < earlier sense “braggart, boaster”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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