| 单词 | cracker |
| 释义 | cracker /krak"euhr/, n. 1. a thin, crisp biscuit. 2. a firecracker. 3. Also called cracker bonbon. a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends. 4. (cap.) Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of Georgia (used as a nickname). 5. Slang (disparaging and offensive). a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S. 6. snapper (def. 5). 7. braggart; boaster. 8. a person or thing that cracks. 9. a chemical reactor used for cracking. Cf. catalytic cracking, fractionator. adj. 10. crackers, Informal. wild; crazy: They went crackers over the new styles. [1400-50; late ME craker. See CRACK, -ER1; (defs. 4-5) perh. orig. in sense "braggart," applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (cf. CORN-CRACKER); for crackers crazy, cf. CRACKED, -ERS] |
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