cracker
A dry, thin, crispy baked breadA dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
» We're out of crackers.
У нас закінчилися крекери.
У нас закінчилося печиво.
Значення
значень: 14A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
Cracker
кре́керkrɛ́ker, сухо́е пече́ньеsuxóje pečénʹje, суха́рьsuxárʹ
A prawn cracker.
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
A firecracker.
A Christmas cracker.
(Британія)A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
a lobster and crab shell cracker
A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Cracker, Crackerin
(Австралія, Ірландія, Нова Зеландія, Британія, сленг)A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
She's an absolute cracker!
The show was a cracker!
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
(США, зневажливе, ethnic, образливе, slur)An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
a poor White person in the southern United States
Приклади
речень: 57We're out of crackers.
У нас закінчилися крекери. — deniko
We're out of cheese and crackers.
deWir haben keinen Käse und keine Kräcker mehr. — Waldelfe
I often eat peanut butter on crackers.
How many boxes of crackers did you buy?
He lived on crackers and water for three days.
ruОн пробыл три дня на одних крекерах и воде. — Lathean
Переклади
мов: 8За значеннями 1
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Походження
From Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, makFrom Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, make a sound”) + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739.
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Форми
множина: crackersСиноніми
синонімів: 77- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends:snappercracker bonbon
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing:firecrackerbanger
- a poor White person in the southern United States:redneck