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- Dictionarycrack·er/ˈkrakər/
noun
- 1. a thin, crisp wafer often eaten with cheese or other savory toppings.
- 2. a person or thing that cracks.
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The meaning of CRACKER is a bragging liar : boaster. How to use cracker in a sentence.
a person who gets into other people's computer systems without permission in order to do something illegal: Holes in software programs provide another avenue for crackers to attack. They are passionate programmers who modify software with creative code, as opposed to crackers who break into computer systems. Compare. hacker. More examples.
Cracker is always disparaging and offensive when used to refer to a poor white person in the South; the word in this sense often implies that the person is regarded as ignorant or uneducated. When used by Black people, cracker can refer to a Southern white racist, not necessarily poor or rural.
A cracker is a snack. It’s a thin, savory, crisp biscuit, like a saltine. It’s also anything that cracks, like a fire cracker or a computer code cracker, or of course, that thin, savory snack that cracks when you break it.
A cracker is a hollow cardboard tube covered with coloured paper. Crackers make a loud noise when they are pulled apart and usually contain a small toy and a paper hat. In Britain they are used mainly at Christmas.
cracker. ( ˈkrækə) n. 1. (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. (Anthropology & Ethnology) derogatory US another word for poor White.
(British English, informal) something that you think is very good, funny, etc. It was a cracker of a goal. I've got a joke for you. It's a real cracker! (North American English, slang, offensive) an offensive word for a poor white person with little education from the southern US.
