cracker
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈkrækər/
- US
:
galleta salada
- Go get us some of those crackers, would you?
- graham crackers
- crackers and cheese
- eat crackers
You look like a Graham cracker kind of cancel.
- You look like a Graham cracker kind of cancel.
- What if I did like crackers with cheese, almost like a baked cracker, crouton cheesy thing.
- I'm just glad that got the Graham cracker thing down.
Examples
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We sat at my table and ate a box of graham crackers with tea.
Fiction book (1992) -
I have brought him some French blue cheese and crackers because blue cheese was always his favorite.
Academic text (2003) -
So for instance, if if I show you a cracker and say what's this?
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You look like a Graham cracker kind of cancel.
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I'm just glad that got the Graham cracker thing down.
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This is if cotton candy and rice cracker had a baby.
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Cheese and crackers, she was right.
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And the box of crackers had been left open on the counter.
Fiction book (1993) -
Honestly, I would have just bought some crackers and veggies and called it a day.
Blog text (9) -
For a quick snack, I grabbed a cracker topped with cheese.
Synonyms
12
1.9
A thin, crisp square cracker with salt often eaten as a snack
10
1.3
A sweet thin cookie made from whole wheat flour often eaten with chocolate and marshmallows
1
2.8
A thin, crisp plain baked snack often eaten with cheese or soup
1
2.5
A small dry round cracker often eaten with soup, especially clam chowder
Compounds
10
1.3
A sweet thin cookie made from whole wheat flour often eaten with chocolate and marshmallows
1
1.5
Small broken pieces of crackers you put on food to make a coating or thicken it
- Specialized
A machine at an oil plant that turns heavy oil into lighter fuel like petrol or diesel
- Specialized
A refinery machine that uses a catalyst to break heavy oil into lighter fuels like gasoline
- Archaic
A surprising thing that seems to come by luck, not skill, like a small toy in a snack box
How Crisp
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cracker for a thin, crisp biscuit comes from the verb crack, meaning 'to break' or 'make a sharp sound'. So a cracker is a crisp thing that often snaps or cracks when you bite it.