cracker
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkrækər/
- Slur
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[Término despectivo/ofensivo para una persona blanca pobre del sur de EE. UU.]
- When this white cracker, ofay motherfucker finds out he's got Indian blood coursing through his veins.
- white cracker
- rednecks and crackers
- honky cracker
And of course, you know, he's as cracker as they get.
- And of course, you know, he's as cracker as they get.
Examples
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- What plans are those? - Wouldn't you like to know, cracker?
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And of course, you know, he's as cracker as they get.
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To a lot of people, it's not "just a cracker," something you are well aware of.
Blog text (1) -
It's still just a cracker no matter what it is to 'them.'
Blog text (1) -
Mr. Jones was what Big Daddy Walter called a "real cracker."
Fiction book (1994) -
You think I don't know who you work for, cracker?
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I oughta leave you here and let those crackers have a go at you.
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You're probably wondering why a brother like me is hanging out with these two crackers.
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Crackers in the South were mad because Negroes were leaving; crackers in the North were mad because they were coming.
Fiction book (1992) -
You should never use the term cracker to refer to someone; it is very offensive.
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 Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cracker as an offensive US term has a mixed history. One helpful way to remember it is that it may come from corn-cracker, meaning 'someone who cracked corn', or from a person who 'cracked' a whip, and over time the name was used for poor white people in the American South.