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Meaning of 'cracker' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cracker [ n.]
- One who, or that which, cracks.
- A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
- A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
- A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
- The pintail duck.
- A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Meaning of 'cracker' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cracker [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
Example in sentence:
  • crackers are often mistakenly called hackers

Nearby Words:

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