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noun
A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
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noun
A euphemism for cracker ("white person").
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, ethnic, slur
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noun
a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cracker
History
Genericized trademark. Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
