- (postpositive) Brit
a slang word for insane
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crackers /ˈkrækəz/ adj
crack•er /ˈkrækɚ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
adj. [be/go + ~]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fooda thin, crisp biscuit.
- a firecracker.
adj. [be/go + ~]
- Computingcrackers, Informal. wild;
crazy: to go crackers from too much work.
crack•er
(krak′ər),USA pronunciation n.
adj.
- Fooda thin, crisp biscuit.
- a firecracker.
- Also called crack′er bon′bon. a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends.
- Slang Terms(cap.) [Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.]a native or inhabitant of Georgia (used as a nickname).
- Slang Terms(disparaging and offensive). a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S.
- Fishsnapper (def. 5).
- braggart;
boaster. - a person or thing that cracks.
- Chemistrya chemical reactor used for cracking. Cf. catalytic cracking, fractionator.
adj.
- Informal Terms crackers, wild;
crazy:They went crackers over the new styles.
- 1400–50; late Middle English craker. See crack, -er1; (defs. 4–5) perh. origin, originally in sense "braggart,'' applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (compare corn-cracker); for crackers crazy, compare cracked, -ers
'crackers' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
paste
- chip and dip
- cracker
- crisper
- dip
- ers
- hors d'oeuvre
- matzo
- reclosable
- S, s
- sesame
- spread