CRACKER


Meaning of CRACKER in English

crack ‧ er /ˈkrækə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

1 . a hard dry type of bread in small flat shapes, that is often eaten with cheese

2 . ( also Christmas cracker ) a decorated paper tube that makes a small exploding sound when you pull it apart. Crackers contain a small gift, a paper hat, and a joke, and are used at Christmas in Britain.

3 . a ↑ firecracker

4 . British English spoken something that is very good or funny:

That was a cracker of a goal.

5 . someone who illegally breaks into a computer system in order to steal information or stop the system from working properly SYN hacker :

computer crackers

6 . British English old-fashioned informal a very attractive woman

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.