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noun
1.
a thin, crisp biscuit.
2.
a firecracker.
3.
Also called cracker bonbon. a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends.
4.
(initial capital letter) Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of Georgia (used as a nickname).
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EXPANDSlang: Disparaging and Offensive. a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S.
6.
snapper (def. 5).
7.
braggart; boaster.
8.
a person or thing that cracks.
9.
COLLAPSEa chemical reactor used for cracking. Compare catalytic cracking, fractionator.
adjective
10.
crackers, Informal. wild; crazy: They went crackers over the new styles.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English craker. See crack, -er1; (defs. 4–5) perhaps orig. in sense “braggart,” applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (compare corn-cracker); for crackers crazy, compare cracked, -ers
1400–50; late Middle English craker. See crack, -er1; (defs. 4–5) perhaps orig. in sense “braggart,” applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (compare corn-cracker); for crackers crazy, compare cracked, -ers
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| Main Entry: | cracker bonbon |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See Christmas cracker |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cracker
mid-15c., "hard wafer," but the specific application to a thin, crisp biscuit is 1739. Cracker-barrel (adj.) "emblematic of down-home ways and views" is from 1877. Cracker, Southern U.S. derogatory term for "poor, white trash" (1766), is from mid-15c. crack "to boast" (e.g. not what it's cracked up to
EXPANDbe), originally a Scottish word. Especially of Georgians by 1808, though often extended to residents of northern Florida.
COLLAPSE
"I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode." [1766, G. Cochrane]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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