Cracker

/ˈkɹækə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
2. A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
3. A prawn cracker.
4. 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.
5. A firecracker.
6. A Christmas cracker.
7. (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
8. A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

Example Sentences

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?

There was feasting and joy from Shanghai to the Wall, What with dim-sims, chop-suey and crackers and all, And the donor of these, by the hook of my crook. Was Chiang Ki-Konglong, the Mandarin Cook.

It is customary in every part of China to fire off crackers on the last day and night of the year for the purpose of terrifying expelling the devils.

a lobster and crab shell cracker

She's an absolute cracker!

The show was a cracker!

A cracker of a day.

And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.

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• crackers

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