cracker
- Noun. A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit.
- 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''.
- Noun. A firecracker.
- Noun. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- Noun. A Christmas cracker.
- Noun. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a ''cat-cracker''.
- Noun. (chiefly, British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
- Noun. (computing) One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- 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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