cracker

  1. Noun.  A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit.
  2. Noun.  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. Noun.  A firecracker.
  4. Noun.  A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
  5. Noun.  A Christmas cracker.
  6. Noun.  Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a ''cat-cracker''.
  7. Noun.  (chiefly, British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
  8. Noun.  (computing) One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
  9. Noun.  (US, pejorative) An impoverished white person from the SE United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; or, (by extension) white people generally.

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