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Noun:
- A Christmas cracker
- A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit.
- A firecracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- 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''.
- British A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
- computing One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a ''cat-cracker''
- pejorative|racial slur An impoverished white person from the SE United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; or, (by extension) white people generally.
Source: Wiktionary
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