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soda cracker

soda cracker

1 2.8
A thin, crisp plain baked snack often eaten with cheese or soup
  • noun
  • /ˈsoʊdə ˈkrækər/
  • US
translation icon : galleta salada
  • At the picnic, we had sandwiches and soda crackers with salsa.
  • eat soda crackers
  • cheese and soda crackers

Examples

  • In one swift motion, she stuffed two soda crackers into her mouth.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • She told me, "He will only eat soda crackers and sweet tea."

    Blog text (7)
  • The next day, she showed up at school with her pockets stuffed with soda crackers.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • I got some of that potted meat and soda crackers if you want some.

  • So Joe knocked the head off a barrel of soda crackers and cut some cheese.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • My grandma calls out, "I take some orange juice and soda crackers if you don't mind."

    Fiction book (1997)
  • She does drink milk and juice, and she eats soda crackers; several times a day, she uses the bathroom.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • And nothing—eating soda crackers, drinking ginger ale, abstaining from food—nothing seemed to help.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • For a quick snack, I often enjoy cheese with my soda cracker.

  • His favorite snack was peanut butter spread on soda crackers.

Synonyms

cracker
vssoda cracker
  • US
114 1.0

A thin, crisp biscuit often eaten with cheese or soup

is the specific type made with baking soda and cream of tartar
saltine
vssoda cracker
  • US
12 1.9

A thin, crisp square cracker with salt often eaten as a snack

focuses on its leavening ingredients rather than a salt topping

How Salty

saltine
  • US
12 1.9
soda cracker
  • US
1 2.8
cracker
  • US
114 1.0

Surface Forms

soda cracker singular
soda crackers plural

Morphology

soda + cracker

The compound is fully compositional: 'soda' (baking soda) modifies 'cracker' to indicate a cracker made with soda. This ingredient-based noun formation directly signals a plain, unsweetened crisp biscuit, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.

Etymology

The noun soda cracker comes from the simple baking ingredient soda and the thin baked cracker. Because these crackers were plain and very crisp, the name now means a thin, 'not sweet' cracker often eaten with cheese or soup.