cracker crumbs
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈkrækər krʌmz/
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migas de galleta
- "She let Mark break two eggs into the bowl of salmon and sprinkle the cracker crumbs on top.
Examples
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They wiped the cracker crumbs off their hands and convinced Sefira to give them high-fives for luck.
Fiction book (1999) -
This pumpkin pie uses a pretty basic graham cracker crumb crust with some pumpkin spices mixed in, though you could easily add some cocoa powder to the crust to get a fourth form of chocolate into the mix.
Blog text (3) -
Add graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, milk, and sugar.
Blog text (7) -
-We found cracker crumbs in this little shit's bed.
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She daily brought cracker crumbs in a plastic bag for them.
Fiction book (1990) -
You get graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk... ...and all this other stuff, and you bake them.
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Lalia fed cracker crumbs to the pigeons and envied them their wings.
Fiction book (1990) -
When melted, pull it out and sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs evenly over the melted butter.
Blog text (12) -
There's orange juice to sponge off car seats and cracker crumbs leaping from the lip of the dustpan.
Fiction book (1996) -
In a medium bowl, toss together the cracker crumbs and sugar.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very small piece of bread, cake, or other baked food
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2.4
Small pieces of dry bread that you put on food before cooking
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Morphology
The meaning 'small pieces of crackers' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cracker' (a thin crispy biscuit) with 'crumb' (a small fragment), forming a straightforward noun+noun compound that denotes fragments of the named item. This compositional pattern is common in English (and across languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will easily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cracker crumbs comes from the simple idea of breaking a dry cracker into tiny crumbs and using those bits to cover or thicken food. Imagine someone crushing crackers in a bag and sprinkling the pieces over a casserole, and that's why it means small pieces used as a 'coating' or 'thickening' in recipes.