Meaning
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- plural of cracker
- A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
Synonyms
matsa
Frequency
Etymology
From cracker + -ers. The South African sense derive their name from their sound and their status as a plurale tantum by association with "trousers". The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".
New
cracker
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- A firecracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- A Christmas cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- (slang) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- (slang) A police officer.
- A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
- (obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
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