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sal⋅tine

  [sawl-teen]
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–noun
a crisp, salted cracker.
Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; salt 1 + -ine 2
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sal·tine   (sôl-tēn')   
n.  A thin crisp cracker sprinkled with coarse salt.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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saltine

  1. n.
    a white person. (A play on a kind of salted white cracker [biscuit]. A cracker is a derogatory term for a white person.) : What are those saltines doing in this neighborhood?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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