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cracker bonbon

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crack⋅er

[krak-er]
–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).
5. Slang: 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. a chemical reactor used for cracking. Compare catalytic cracking, fractionator.
–adjective
10. crackers, Informal. wild; crazy: They went crackers over the new styles.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME craker. See crack, -er 1 ; (defs. 4–5) perh. orig. in sense “braggart,” applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (cf. corn-cracker ); for crackers crazy, cf. cracked, -ers
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Main Entry:  cracker bonbon
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See Christmas cracker
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