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| cracker |
| 1. n. A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers). |
| 2. n. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. |
| 3. n. A firecracker. |
| 4. n. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). |
| 5. n. The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound. |
| 6. n. A Christmas cracker. |
| 7. n. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker |
| 8. n. (slang) A fine thing or person (crackerjack). |
| She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker! |
| 9. n. An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn). |
| 10. n. (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions. |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. |
| 12. n. (US, derogatory racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person. |
| 13. n. (US, Florida slang) A police officer. |
| 14. n. A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck. |
| 15. n. (obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. |
