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Saltine

//sɔlˈtin// noun

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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

Etymology

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

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