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crack·er Listen to audio/ˈkrækɚ/ noun
plural crack·ers
[count] 1 : a dry, thin baked food that is made of flour and water and is often eaten with cheese
a plate of cheese and crackerssee also animal cracker, graham cracker, oyster cracker, soda cracker
2 : a person who can crack something (such as a safe or a secret code)
a safe cracker [=a criminal who can opens a safe illegally] a code cracker
3 chiefly Brit : a colorful paper tube that holds small gifts and that opens with a loud noise when the ends are pulled Crackers are commonly used in Britain at Christmas.
a Christmas cracker
4 Brit, informal : a very good, amusing, or attractive person or thing
The match should be real cracker. The guitarist played a cracker of a solo.
5 US, informal + offensive : a poor usually Southern white person

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