noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit. Canada, US
2. 2
   a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking wordnet
3. 3
   A euphemism for cracker ("white person"). Canada, US, ethnic, slur

Synonyms

All synonyms

biscuitcaucasiancolonizercrackercrackerhonky

Example

More examples

"Can you pick up some saltine crackers?"

Etymology

Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

Related phrases

soda cracker

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