/krak"euhr/ , n.
1. a thin, crisp biscuit.
2. a firecracker.
3. Also called cracker bonbon . a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends.
4. ( cap. ) Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of Georgia (used as a nickname).
5. Slang ( disparaging and offensive ). a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S.
6. snapper (def. 5).
7. braggart; boaster.
8. a person or thing that cracks.
9. a chemical reactor used for cracking. Cf. catalytic cracking, fractionator .
adj.
10. crackers , Informal. wild; crazy: They went crackers over the new styles.
[ 1400-50; late ME craker. See CRACK, -ER 1 ; (defs. 4-5) perh. orig. in sense "braggart," applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (cf. CORN-CRACKER); for crackers crazy, cf. CRACKED, -ERS ]