Crackers
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crackers is a noun meaning plural of cracker.
Meaning
plural of cracker.
More Meanings
- (South Africa) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
- (UK, colloquial) Crazy, insane.
- (slang) Testicles.
Example Sentences
“I will call up Demons to destroy thee!” “You're crackers,” said Carrot, backing away.
Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.
He acknowledges that it must seem "a crackers thing to say", but given the substantial progress which has been made in other areas of the business, his optimism isn't without foundation.
Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, told the online magazine UnHerd in May that Truss was “as close to properly crackers as anybody I have met in parliament” and would be an “even worse” prime minister than Johnson.
Synonyms for crackers
Depending on context, synonyms include bananas, barking, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buggy, haywire, cracked, balmy, fruity, nutty.
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