Definition of CRACKERS

crackers

Noun

  • 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
  • plural of cracker
  • A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
  • Testicles.

Adjective Satellite

  • informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adj

  • Crazy, insane.

Origin / Etymology

From cracker + -ers. The South African sense derive their name from their sound and their status as a plurale tantum by association with "trousers". The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".

Synonyms

around the bend, balmy, banger, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, cracker, cracker bonbon, daft, dotty, firecracker, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, redneck, round the bend, snapper, wacky, whacky, 5150, apeshit, bananas, barking, barking mad, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, batshit, bread baskets, buggish, bughouse, cra-cra, crackers, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, demented, deranged, distraught, disturbed, doolally, eccentric, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, gaga, harebrained, hatstand, insane, loon, loony tunes, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nutso, nutter, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, ripshit, screwy, sicko, squirrelly, starkers, tonto, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, wode, yampy, zany

Scrabble Score: 16

crackers: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
crackers: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crackers: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

crackers: valid Words With Friends Word