The difference between Cracker and Redneck
When used as nouns, cracker means a dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers), whereas redneck means a poor, rural, especially white, person from the southern united states.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cracker and Redneck
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Cracker as a noun:
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
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Cracker as a noun:
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
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Cracker as a noun:
A firecracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
Examples:
"synonyms: popper"
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Cracker as a noun:
A Christmas cracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
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Cracker as a noun (slang, chiefly, British):
A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Examples:
"She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!"
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Cracker as a noun:
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
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Cracker as a noun (computing):
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
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Cracker as a noun (US, derogatory, racial slur):
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; any white person.
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Cracker as a noun (US, Florida, slang, derogatory):
A police officer.
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Cracker as a noun:
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Examples:
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Redneck as a noun (slang, pejorative):
A poor, rural, especially white, person from the Southern United States; especially, one who is regarded as unsophisticated, rude, racist, arrogant, lowbrow, etc.
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Redneck as a noun (historical, slang, US):
Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
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Redneck as a noun (historical, slang, US):
A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
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Redneck as a noun (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries):
A Roman Catholic.