Cracker

(noun.) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.

(noun.) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.

(noun.) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; 'crackers are often mistakenly called hackers'.

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• He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• That night I issued orders for opening the route to Bridgeport--a cracker line, as the soldiers appropriately termed it. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The boy is generous and warm-hearted, but a perfect fire-cracker when excited. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• By four o'clock in the morning the battle had entirely ceased, and our cracker line was never afterward disturbed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Prentice would pour out half a glass of what they call corn whiskey, and would dip the crackers in it and eat them. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Squibs and crackers were thrown about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One thing I never could comprehend was that Tyler had a sideboard with liquors and generally crackers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Fire-crackers and grenades were also known to the Chinese and the Greeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She brought crackers and we ate them and drank some vermouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• There were crackers in it with the tenderest mottoes that could be got for money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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