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Cracker

noun

1.

A thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.

2.

A poor White person in the southern United States. Synonym: redneck.

3.

A programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things.

4.

Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing. Synonyms: banger, firecracker.

5.

A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends. Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper.

Crack

adjective

1.

Of the highest quality. Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops. "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"

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"Cracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... as mine; and when it come to beaten biscuits, why nobody could equal Sam. Milly'd make up the dough as stiff as she could handle it, and Sam'd beat it till it was soft enough to roll out; and such biscuits I never expect to eat again—white and light as snow inside, and crisp as a cracker outside. Folks nowadays makes beaten biscuits by machinery, but they don't taste like the old-fashioned kind that was beat ...

— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall

... pride while Peter returned her to the couch, brought her a glass of milk and a cracker, pulled the shade, and going out softly closed the door. In five minutes ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... himself up to his full height, and, giving to his nut-cracker face the most dignified look possible, he said in a ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... me has shuck hands forever," said the repentant Moggs. "I've been looking out and expecting loaves and fishes long enough. Loaves, indeed! Why I never got even a cracker, unless it was aside of the ear, when there was a row on the election ground; and as for fishes, why, if I'd stopped any longer for them to come swimming up to my mouth, all ready fried, with pepper on 'em, I wouldn't even have been decent food for fishes myself. I never got a nibble, let alone ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... Bread.—To make unleavened bread the flour is moistened and worked into a stiff dough, which is then rolled thin, cut into various shapes, and baked, forming a brittle biscuit or cracker. ...

— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value • Harry Snyder

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