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say it: KRAK-ur
cracker is a noun meaning "a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
a poor White person in the southern United States
a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
“crackers are often mistakenly called hackers”
firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cracker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.