Word Finder - cracker

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

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• biscuit

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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.

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• popper
• snapper

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A firecracker.

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A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).

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A Christmas cracker.

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Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker

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A fine thing or person (crackerjack).

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She's an absolute cracker!

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An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

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One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

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• black hat
• black-hat hacker
• hacker

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A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

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(racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

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• corn-cracker
• honky
• peckerwood
• redneck
• trailer nigger
• trailer trash
• white trash
• whitey
• wonderbread

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(Florida) A police officer.

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A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.

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A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

The steam cracker reacts steam with heavy gas oil.

As a sandwich, deviled ham is best on toast, but as a dip it elevates your favorite cracker to hors d'oeuvre status.

Next up is a real cracker of a track.

Christmas Pudding Recipe Christmas Pudding Recipe Christmas crackers Traditionally a christmas cracker is placed next to each plate on the Christmas dinner table.

Mind you, at least Johnson scored a cracker against Luton, it wasn't presented to him on a plate.

As it was November 5th Jo wanted a real cracker of a party to go with her fireworks display.

Patrick Meehan was a career safe cracker who was found guilty of the high profile murder of an elderly woman during a house break.

The ethylene cracker is expandable to 1·5 million tons, which would make it the world's largest.

Christmas Pudding Recipe Christmas crackers Traditionally a christmas cracker is placed next to each plate on the Christmas dinner table.

Cracker 5cl cranberry juice 5cl pineapple juice 5cl passion-fruit juice 5cl grapefruit juice lemonade Fill a highball with ice.

Our Verdict... Another action packed cracker from the ever dependable Harrison Ford.

The process by-passes the ethylene cracker and avoids the intermediate product ethylene dichloride.

Included in the expansion is a second 800,000 tons steam cracker, a 535,000 tons polyethylene plant and a 410,000 tons ethylene glycol plant.

Cracker might have been uncomfortable, uncompromising, sometimes harrowing viewing.

Ostensibly a crime drama of the formulaic construction viewers were used to, Cracker obtained equally massive ratings and credibility.

The new 206 Gti 180 is a modern cracker that won't easily be mistaken for one of its lesser stable mates.

But with so much resting on this game it should be a cracker to watch for fans and neutrals alike.

This morning I hid a cracker.

The aim of this work was to investigate the water sorption behavior of cracker materials and calculate the shelf-life stability.

Some recipes in this vodka martini cocktail categoryeven call for rimming the martini glass with graham cracker crumbs to replicate the crust of the sweet citrus dessert.

Place the cracker crumbs into a pie plate or shallow dish and, if desired, mix in a pinch of sugar.

He goes down in history as the inventor of the graham cracker.

Spread a teaspoon of natural PB on a low fat cracker.

Top it with another cracker and you have a quick and convenient treat.

Many brick-and-mortar stores carry Webkinz, such as Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us, Cracker Barrel's gift store, and most stores where stuffed animals are stocked on the shelves.

Cover each individual serving of pudding with ¼ inch or so of graham cracker crumbs.

Give me thirty minutes to get started on this Georgia cracker bastard and call me back.

Its thick rectangular shape makes it feel a lot sturdier than the flimsy iPod Nano, so you won't have to worry about snapping it in two like a cracker.

By six months of age, many infants begin reaching for objects quickly, without jerkiness, and may be able to feed themselves a cracker or similar food.

Adding an egg substitute and bread or cracker crumbs will bind the veggies together to form a burger patty, and added spices give a flavor boost.

Finding no trace of the cracker there, she pointed to my stomach and spelled "eat," meaning, "Did you eat it?"

Incidentally, you showed some smarts not calling down to Georgia and getting lost in the cracker barrel.