cracker
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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Born ~1739 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
A fresh raspberry atop peanut butter on a rice cracker* is lush. *a thin one, not the massive snack a jack size ones
😂😂 Oh hold on. Brie on a cracker? I’m putting myself there for 10 mins.
It's a little strange to me that packaging isn't a solved problem some brands have these and they work every time; others almost never do ritz cracker sleeves are consistently easy to open neatly; saltine crackers…
Ha. Thank you. A robust red and some brie on a cracker. 🍷🧀
"cracker" as in "haha that cracks me up"? Because...
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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).
She's an absolute cracker!
“A fresh raspberry atop peanut butter on a rice cracker* is lush. *a thin one, not the massive snack a jack size ones”
— Bluesky· May 2026“😂😂 Oh hold on. Brie on a cracker? I’m putting myself there for 10 mins.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's a little strange to me that packaging isn't a solved problem some brands have these and they work every time; others almost never do ritz cracker sleeves are consistently easy to open neatly; saltine crackers are impossible to open without it looking like a bear attack”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ha. Thank you. A robust red and some brie on a cracker. 🍷🧀”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"cracker" as in "haha that cracks me up"? Because...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A prawn cracker.
The show was a cracker!
“Tomorrow's episode is a cracker. Join @robertcheath.bsky.social and @guy-e-walker.bsky.social as they discuss all things Harry Hill including the 2013 film with Harry Hill superfan, @dankackroyd.bsky.social If you sign up for our paid Patreon, you can listen right now!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is the start of 🐄 General Cracker🌵's fame.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If I were to meet a cracker why should I assume you don't mean me harm?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This file would be a cracker to read”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Taking away Graham Cracker's seat in Congress in the next election would be the best move on the board.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
a lobster and crab shell cracker
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- Graham bread74%
(US, dated) A Graham cracker.
- graham cracker73%
(US, by extension) A sweet rectangular cracker, usually made of graham flour and sweetened with honey (and often spiced with cinnamon) and perforated down the middle.
- graham cracker72%
(US, dated) A specific cracker made of graham flour, developed in the nineteenth century.
- graham cracker71%
A Graham biscuit.
- saltine71%
(North America) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.