cracker

1 a thin crisp wafer made or flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet

2 a poor white person in the southern United States [syn: redneck]

3 a programmer who `cracks' (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"

4 firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, banger]

5 a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: snapper, cracker bonbon]

English

Pronunciation

• , /ˈkrækə(r)/, /"kr

Cracker may refer to:

• Cracker (food), a thin crisp biscuit or wafer, usually salted or savoury
• Christmas cracker, traditional British Christmas toy or decoration which gives a loud 'crack' when opened
• Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta Georgia
• Florida cracker, an American pioneer settler of the 19th century in the state of Florida
• Georgia cracker, an American pioneer settler of the 19th century in the state of Georgia
• Cracker butterflies, a genus of butterfly from the Neotropics
• Cracker (pejorative), an abusive or slang term for a white person
• Software cracker, someone who circumvents copy protection in computer software
• a catalytic cracker used in oil refineries, see Fluid catalytic cracking
• a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip to produce a cracking sound
• another name for a firecracker
• a device used to open small compressed gas cartridges such as whipped-cream chargers
• a person who carries out illegal safe cracking
• in computing, cracker may refer to a black hat computer hacker
• password cracking, the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system.

In entertainment

• Cracker (band), a rock music band
  • Cracker (album), their first album
• Cracker (comic), a British children's comic
• Cracker (UK TV series), a television crime drama series
• Cracker (US TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series
• Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
• Crackers (1998 film), an Australian comedy
• The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseys
• Crackers? (2006, fireshow), a show about Risk by UK pyrotechnicians The World Famous
• Sonic Crackers, an April 1994 prototype version of what would become Knuckles' Chaotix

See also

• Crack
• Cracking
• Crackerjack (disambiguation)