Cracker

Quick meaning: Cracker is a noun meaning A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

Meaning

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

More Meanings

1. A prawn cracker.
2. A firecracker.
3. A Christmas cracker.
4. (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
5. A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
6. The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
7. (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

Example Sentences

A cracker of a day.

The show was a cracker!

She's an absolute cracker!

a lobster and crab shell cracker

Word Forms

• crackers

Synonyms for cracker

Depending on context, synonyms include biscuit, popper, snapper, corn-cracker, honky, peckerwood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include banger, firecracker, snapper, redneck, saltine, cookie.

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