| 单词 | cracker |
| 释义 | cracker (once / 1481 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n A cracker is a snack. It’s a thin, savory, crisp biscuit, like a saltine. It’s also anything that cracks, like a firecracker or a computer code cracker, or of course, that thin, savory snack that cracks when you break it. Besides a baked wafer, another kind of cracker is a noisemaker — either a small firework that makes a sharp bang, or the kind that snaps loudly when you pull its colorful paper wrapper apart. Cracker can also be used as an offensive term for a white person, particularly one who's Southern and poor. This meaning comes from the sense of crack as "brag," and a cracker, therefore, as a "bragger." WORD FAMILYcracker: crackers+/crack: cracked, cracker, cracking, crackingly, cracks/cracked: crackeder, crackedest/cracking: crackings USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Smith said the word “cracker” was found spray-painted in two places in the home. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) To serve, spoon candied jalapeños on top of cream cheese and serve with crackers. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) He cited the four successive proxy contests at Cracker Barrel. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1 n a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet 2Hypo|Hyper saltine a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking soda crackerunsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of tartar oyster crackera small dry usually round cracker water biscuita thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese graham crackersemisweet whole-wheat cracker pretzelglazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot soft pretzela pretzel made of soft bread bread, breadstuff, staff of life food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked 1n firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing Syn|Hypo|Hyper banger, firecracker cannon cracker a large firecracker cherry bomba red ball-shaped firecracker with high explosive power whizbang, whizzbanga firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion firework, pyrotechnic (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. 2n a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends 3Syn|Hyper cracker bonbon, snapper favor, favour, party favor, party favour souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party n a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things 4crackers are often mistakenly called hackers Hyper coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineer a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs n a poor White person in the southern United States Syn|Hyper redneck rustic an unsophisticated country person |
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