'Cracker' definitions:
Definition of 'cracker'
From: WordNet
noun
A thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
noun
A poor White person in the southern United States [syn: redneck, cracker]
noun
A programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"
noun
Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker, banger]
noun
A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon]
Definition of 'Cracker'
From: GCIDE
- Cracker \Crack"er\ (kr[a^]k"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who, or that which, cracks. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Zool.) The pintail duck. [1913 Webster]
- 7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cracker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- backwoodsman,
- biscuit,
- boiler factory,
- boiler room,
- bone,
- briar-hopper,
- brush ape,
- Brussels biscuit,
- bull-roarer,
- bushman,
- catcall,
- cherry bomb,
- clack,
- clacker,
- clam digger,
- clapper,
- cricket,
- desert rat,
- dust,
- firecracker,
- forester,
- frontiersman,
- graham cracker,
- hardtack,
- hillbilly,
- hinterlander,
- horn,
- Klaxon,
- Melba toast,
- mountain man,
- mountaineer,
- mummy,
- noisemaker,
- parchment,
- pilot biscuit,
- piny,
- pretzel,
- rattle,
- rattlebox,
- redneck,
- ridge runner,
- rusk,
- saltine,
- sea biscuit,
- ship biscuit,
- sinker,
- siren,
- snapper,
- soda cracker,
- steam whistle,
- stick,
- ticktack,
- wafer,
- whistle,
- whizgig,
- whizzer,
- woodlander,
- woodman,
- woodsman,
- zwieback