an instrument or device for cracking the shells of nuts.
any of several corvine birds of the genus Nucifraga that feed on nuts, as the common nutcracker, N. caryocatactes, of Europe and Clark's nutcracker, N. columbiana, of the western U.S.
Or Spike Jones cracks me up with his subversion of The Nutcracker.
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She set her mind on getting a part in The Nutcracker and devoted all waking hours to preparing for the audition.
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Of course, the headline, “Zemeckis to Uglimate The Nutcracker,” might have set a certain unappreciative tone.
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Yet Serenade for Strings in C Major sounded nothing like the Nutcracker or Swan Lake.
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I gave in to my primal impulses and went to a showing of The Nutcracker.
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When Mrs. Nutcracker reached home she found her little squirrel boys packing up their things.
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Thomas Fillmore, a bent old man with a shrewd, nutcracker face, came through the bushes while Ellis was sitting on the fence.
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He was not strong enough to throw it far and it only fell at her feet, but Mary's face looked as pinched as a nutcracker.
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The nutcracker turned somersaults, and the pencil scrawled over the slate.
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He had lighted a candle, and his nutcracker face showed scared in the light of it.
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British Dictionary definitions for nutcracker
nutcracker
/ (ˈnʌtˌkrækə) /
noun
(often plural)a device for cracking the shells of nuts
either of two birds, Nucifraga caryocatactes of the Old World or N. columbianus (Clark's nutcracker) of North America, having speckled plumage and feeding on nuts, seeds, etc: family Corvidae (crows)