Cracker

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"kr{k@(r)/}}

Noun

 * 1) A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit.
 * 2) A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
 * 3) A firecracker.
 * 4) A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
 * 5) A Christmas cracker
 * 6) Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
 * 7)  A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
 * 8)  One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

Derived terms

 * crackerless
 * crackerlike

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 An impoverished white person from the SE United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; or, (by extension) white people generally.

Synonyms

 * white trash, trailer trash, redneck, honky, (sometimes) crack head

Thesaurus
Brussels biscuit, Klaxon, Melba toast, backwoodsman, biscuit, boiler factory, boiler room, bone, briar-hopper, brush ape, bull-roarer, bushman, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clam digger, clapper, cricket, desert rat, dust, firecracker, forester, frontiersman, graham cracker, hardtack, hillbilly, hinterlander, horn, mountain man, mountaineer, mummy, noisemaker, parchment, pilot biscuit, piny, pretzel, rattle, rattlebox, redneck, ridge runner, rusk, saltine, sea biscuit, ship biscuit, sinker, siren, snapper, soda cracker, steam whistle, stick, ticktack, wafer, whistle, whizgig, whizzer, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, zwieback

Synonyms

 * biscuit
 * popper
 * black hat hacker
 * hacker