喜樂美語

cracker

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，方便你先看懂它的意思。

crackernoun/ˈkɹækə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    obsoleteA noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

    • What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
  • 2

    A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

  • 3

    A prawn cracker.

    • There was feasting and joy from Shanghai to the Wall, What with dim-sims, chop-suey and crackers and all, And the donor of these, by the hook of my crook. Was Chiang Ki-Konglong, the Mandarin Cook.
  • 4

    The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.

  • 5

    A firecracker.

  • 6

    A Christmas cracker.

    • It is customary in every part of China to fire off crackers on the last day and night of the year for the purpose of terrifying expelling the devils.
  • 7

    A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.

  • 8

    A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

    • a lobster and crab shell cracker
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

  • 10

    obsoleteA person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

  • 11

    computingengineeringmathematicsA person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

    • It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.
    • Likewise, early software pirates and "crackers" often used phrases like "information wants to be free" to protest the regulations against the copying of proprietary software packages and computer systems.
  • 12

    slangA fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).

    • She's an absolute cracker!
    • The show was a cracker!
  • 13

    An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

  • 14

    offensivederogatoryslurAn impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).

    • Brothers and the whiteys / Blacks and the crackers / Police and their backers / They're all political actors
    • Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。