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Cracker may refer to:
- Cracker (food) A cracker is a type of thin or flat baked good commonly made from unleavened grain flour dough and typically made in quantity in various hand-sized or smaller shapes. Flavorings or seasonings such as salt, herbs, seeds, or cheese may be added to the dough or sprinkled on top before baking. Crackers are a nutritious and ready to eat way to use a, a type of biscuit, usually salted or savory edible
- Cracker (mountain), a mountain peak in Glacier National Park
- Christmas cracker Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-, traditional British Christmas toy or decoration which gives a loud 'crack' when opened
- Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta Georgia
- Florida cracker Florida Cracker refers to original colonial era American pioneer settlers of the state of Florida, and their descendants. The first Florida Crackers arrived in 1763 when Spain traded Florida to Great Britain. The British divided the territory into East Florida and West Florida, and began to aggressively recruit settlers to the area, offering free, a Florida native
- Cracker butterflies, a genus of butterfly from the Neotropics
- Cracker (pejorative), an abusive or slang term for a white person
- Cracking (chemistry) In petroleum geology and chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or heavy hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors. The rate of cracking and the end products are strongly dependent on the temperature and presence of any catalysts, the process whereby complex organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules
- a term for wafer-style Sacramental bread Sacramental bread, sometimes called the lamb, altar bread, host or simply Communion bread, is the bread which is used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist
- a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip A long stick-like device, usually slightly flexible, with a small bit of leather or cord, called a "popper", on the end. Depending on length and flexibility, this type is often called a riding whip, riding crop or "bat". It is also sometimes called a "horsewhip" or "horse whip" to produce a cracking sound
- a firecracker A firecracker is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang; any visual effect is incidental to this goal. They have fuses, and are wrapped in a heavy paper casing to contain the explosive compound. Firecrackers, along with fireworks, originated in China
- a device used to open small compressed gas cartridges such as whipped-cream chargers
- a person who performs safe cracking Safe-cracking is the process of opening a safe without either the combination or key. It may also refer to a computer hacker's attempts to break into a secured computer system, in which case it may be shortened to "cracking" or black hat hacking
- a Black-hat computer hacker In common usage, a hacker is a person who breaks into computers, but does no harm, usually for fun or just the challenge. The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the computer underground but is now an open community. Hackers are people who are motivated by curiosity and adventurer's spirit, a person who breaks security; Software cracker Software cracking is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, usually related to protection methods: copy protection, trial/demo version, serial number, hardware key, date checks, CD check or software annoyances like nag screens and adware, password cracker
In entertainment
- Cracker (band) Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Eurotrash Girl", and "Get Off This", a rock music band
- Cracker (comic), a British children's comic
- Cracker (UK TV series), a television crime drama series
- Cracker (US TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series
- Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
- Crackers (1998 film), an Australian film.
- The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats
- Sonic Crackers, an April 1994 prototype version of what would become Knuckles' Chaotix
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