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Crackers   /krˈækərz/   Listen
Crackers

adjective
1.
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.  Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.


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.



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"Crackers" Quotes from Famous Books



... house. Where do you think we're going? To Russia? Minerva's got the Sandwich Islands green with envy. What's the use of spoiling refreshments by eating now? You fellows are worse than the children of Armenia! I say, let's have a swim; the tide is nice and high, and then rest up and eat some crackers and hike up to the party. They'll be throwing chocolate cake at us ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... at home and having a bowl of crackers and milk in a shady corner of the west veranda. He was chewing in the manner of those whose teeth are few and not too secure. His brows were knitted and he looked as if not merely joy but everything ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... or unfermented, are lighter if baked in some small form, and this is particularly true of unfermented breads made light with air. For this reason, breads made into a dough are best baked in the form of rolls, biscuits, or crackers, and batter breads in small iron cups similar to those in the accompanying illustration. These cups or "gem irons" as they are sometimes called, are to be obtained in various shapes and sizes, but for this purpose the more shallow cups are preferable. ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... influence at the ordnance, has prepared such a spectacle for the proclamation of the peace as is to surpass all its predecessors of bouncing memory. It is to open with a concert of fifteen hundred hands, and conclude with so many hundred thousand crackers all set to music, that all the men killed in the war are to be wakened with the crash, as if it was the day of judgment, and fall a dancing, like the troops in the Rehearsal. I wish you could see him making squibs of his papillotes, ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... measure—who can ever forget it! It stirs the blood like a trumpet. The door was kicked open and two convalescent soldiers entered, one wearing a festive cap of coloured paper such as is secreted in Christmas "crackers." He was playing a fife, and the drummer ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan


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