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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRACKER, n.
1. A noisy boasting fellow.
2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.
3. A hard biscuit.
4. That which cracks any thing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
2: a poor White person in the southern United States [syn: redneck, cracker]
3: a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"
4: firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker, banger]
5: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. chiefly dialect a bragging liar ; boaster 2. something that makes a cracking or snapping noise: as a. firecracker b. the snapping end of a whiplash ; snapper c. a paper holder for a party favor that pops when the ends are pulled sharply 3. plural nutcracker 4. a dry thin crispy baked bread product that may be leavened or unleavened 5. a. usually disparaging a poor usually Southern white b. capitalized a native or resident of Florida or Georgia — used as a nickname 6. the equipment in which cracking (as of petroleum) is carried out 7. hacker 4

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a paper cylinder both ends of which are pulled at Christmas etc. making a sharp noise and releasing a small toy etc. 2 a firework exploding with a sharp noise. 3 (usu. in pl.) an instrument for cracking (nutcrackers). 4 a thin dry biscuit often eaten with cheese. 5 sl. Brit. a notable or attractive person. 6 US a biscuit. 7 US offens. = poor White. Phrases and idioms: cracker-barrel US (of philosophy etc.) homespun; unsophisticated.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cracker Crack"er (kr[a^]k"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? --Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett. 6. (Zo["o]l.) The pintail duck. 7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. --Knight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crackers) 1. A cracker is a thin, crisp biscuit which is often eaten with cheese. N-COUNT 2. If you say that someone or something is a cracker, you like and admire them very much. (BRIT INFORMAL) She's a cracker... 'Dude' is a cracker of an album. N-COUNT: oft N of n 3. A cracker is a hollow cardboard tube covered with coloured paper. Crackers make a loud noise when they are pulled apart and usually contain a small toy and a paper hat. In Britain they are used mainly at Christmas. ...a Christmas cracker. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Hard biscuit. 2. Fire-cracker.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.

Moby 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