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English

Etymology

From crack (verb). Hard “bread/biscuit” sense first attested in 1739, though “hard wafer” sense attested since 1440.

Computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker.

Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?k'?(r), IPA^(key): /?k?æk?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æk?(?)

Noun

cracker (plural crackers)

1. A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

   Synonym: (UK, Australia) biscuit

   Coordinate terms: biscuit, brittle, cookie, chip, crisp, hardtack, snap, toast, wafer

2. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

   Synonyms: popper, snapper

3. A firecracker.
4. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
   1. The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.

      Synonym: popper

5. A Christmas cracker.
6. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
7. (slang, chiefly Britain) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
8. An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
9. (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

   Synonyms: black-hat hacker, black hat, hacker

   Coordinate term: script kiddie

   • 1984, Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making, Macmillan, p 137:

     It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.
10. (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
11. (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

    Synonyms: corn-cracker, honky, peckerwood, redneck, trailer nigger, trailer trash, white trash, whitey, wonderbread; see also Thesaurus:white person

12. (Florida, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
13. A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
14. (obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• crack

Translations

Further reading

• cracker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cracker (term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• recrack

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kr?kr?]
• Hyphenation: cra?c?ker

Noun

cracker m inan

1. Alternative form of krekr

Declension

Noun

cracker m anim (feminine crackerka)

1. drug user

Declension

English

Etymology

From bang +? -er. The sausages were so called because of their excess water content and impervious skin, leading to the risk of explosion if not punctured before cooking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ?(?)?(?)/

  Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

banger (plural bangers)

1. A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.
   1. (slang) A person who has sex.
      • 2008, Dewan Gibson, The Imperfect Enjoyment (page 177)

        He is also a former international chick banger.

2. (Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
3. (Britain, slang) A woman's breast.
4. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, slang) A sausage.

   Synonym: (Australia) snag

5. (slang) An old, worn-out car.

   Synonyms: bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox

6. (US, slang) A cylinder in a car.

7. (US, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
   • 2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (page 420)

     Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.

8. (Britain, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
   • 2008, Billboard (volume 120, number 32, page 44)

     Morris' melding of influences ranging from mid-'80s computer technology to Baltimore club bangers to the U.K. rave scene has cemented his reputation as one of London's most formidable DJs.

   • 2012, Mike Skinner, The Story of The Streets (page 31)

     'lce Ice Baby' was an absolute banger, though, wasn't it? And knowing the history of that song, it had proper rap credentials.

9. (slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bergan, graben

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???r

Adjective

banger

1. Comparative form of bang

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

banger

1. inflection of bang:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Maranao

Verb

banger

1. to bite

Synonyms

• bangi'
• bangit