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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).
5.
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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Crackers
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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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bonkers definition[ˈbɔŋkɚz]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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