Saltine
/sɔlˈtin/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit. Canada, US
- 2 a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking wordnet
- 3 A euphemism for cracker ("white person"). Canada, US, ethnic, slur
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Can you pick up some saltine crackers?"
Etymology
Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.