cracker

(krakər)

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

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

See cracker in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  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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