CRACKER-BARREL


Meaning of CRACKER-BARREL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌba-rəl ]

adjective

Etymology: from the cracker barrel in country stores around which customers lounged for informal conversation

Date: 1916

: suggestive of the friendly homespun character of a country store

a cracker-barrel philosopher

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.