saltine
Plural: saltines
Noun
- A thin, crisp, square cracker, typically salted.
- a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking
- A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
- A euphemism for cracker ("white person").
Examples
- She crumbled the competition, leaving them feeling like a dry saltine.
Origin / Etymology
Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
Scrabble Score: 7
saltine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsaltine: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
saltine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
saltine: valid Words With Friends Word