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cracker

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

crack·er / ˈkrakər/ • n. 1. a thin, crisp wafer often eaten with cheese or other savory toppings. 2. a person or thing that cracks. ∎ an installation for cracking hydrocarbons: a catalytic cracker. ∎ a person who breaks into a computer system, typically for an illegal purpose. 3. often offens. another term for poor white. 4. chiefly Brit. a paper cylinder that is pulled apart at Christmas or other celebrations, making a sharp noise and releasing a small novelty. ∎ a firework exploding with a sharp noise.

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Cracker

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Cracker, name applied to one of the class of poor‐white inhabitants of the backwoods of Georgia and Florida, supposedly because their chief article of diet is cracked corn. The Georgia cracker has appeared frequently in fiction, from A.B. Longstreet and W.T. Thompson to Erskine Caldwell.

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cracker

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | | Copyright

cracker Someone who carries out unauthorized or criminal acts such as breaking into secure computer networks. The term was invented by HACKERS who found it distasteful to be associated with programmers who violated the security of a system.

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Cracker

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Cracker

a bundle of small wood; a small parcel of sweets.

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cracker

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

cracker •alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, cracker, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, knacker, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka •Kafka •anchor, banker, Bianca, canker, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, flanker, franker, hanker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor, wanker •Alaska, lascar, Madagascar, Nebraska •Kamchatka • linebacker • outbacker •hijacker, skyjacker •Schumacher • backpacker •safecracker • wisecracker •nutcracker • firecracker • ransacker •scrimshanker • bushwhacker •barker, haka, Kabaka, Lusaka, marker, moussaka, nosy parker, Oaxaca, Osaka, parka, Shaka, Zarqa •asker, masker •backmarker • waymarker •Becker, checker, Cheka, chequer, Dekker, exchequer, Flecker, mecca, Neckar, Necker, pecker, Quebecker, Rebecca, Rijeka, trekker, weka, wrecker •sepulchre (US sepulcher) • Cuenca •burlesquer, Francesca, Wesker •woodpecker

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