| Cracker 1. (n.) One who, or that which, cracks. 2. (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. 3. (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder enclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker. 4. (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. 6. (n.) The pintail duck. 7. (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Thesaurus Entries 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 |