(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
(3) Regardless of when or how that occurs, one thing is believed – there will not be an end to cracker night.
(4) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(5) McGovern, the award-winning creator of dramas including Cracker, said the whole team currently working on the third series of The Street , including executive producer Sita Williams, at producer ITV Studios' Manchester base could be made redundant.
(6) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(7) Joe Wilkinson 'Instead of Jokes in a Christmas crackers they should put in something more useful, like the rules to Kabaddi or instructions on how to delete your internet history.'
(8) Comparisons between parents and childrens reports of food frequencies and portion sizes revealed the best correlations for beverages, bread-cereals-crackers, meat-fish-poultry, and mixed dishes.
(9) When asked what cracker night says about life in the Territory, Carmichael points towards personal freedom.
(10) Though the last team to win the league having been outside the top three at Christmas were Arsenal (who were sixth as the crackers were pulled) way back in 1997-98, plenty of sides have come from even further back.
(11) Nutritional ideas and products that are the outcomes of the early vegetarian movement include a commitment to high fiber diets, the popularity of breakfast cereals, and the graham cracker.
(12) Schuster has been commissioning editor of comedy at Sky since 2011, working on shows including Little Crackers and The Kumars for Sky1 and A Young Doctor's Notebook and Psychobitches for Sky Arts.
(13) Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained.
(14) Nicholas Evans is a celebrated storyteller, and the story he tells me is a cracker.
(15) The meals consisted of starch crackers fed at the rate of 1 g carbohydrate from starch per kilogram body weight.
(16) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(17) The test fiber was consumed in crackers that contained approximately 7.5 gm fiber from psyllium gum, wheat bran, or a combination of the two sources.
(18) McGovern, the award-winning creator of The Street and other dramas including Cracker, said on BBC Radio 4's Front Row last night that he would not take the drama to another producer when ITV's Manchester drama department is scrapped as part of the latest round of cuts at the broadcaster.
(19) Once delivered, the ethane will be fed into “crackers” which break apart the gas and turn it into ethylene, which is used in a wide range of plastic products, such as plastic bags and – according to one Ineos man, the packaging for Pot Noodles.
(20) On basal esophageal manometry, 275 patients had a normal response, 64 patients had findings of high-amplitude peristalsis or "nut-cracker" esophagus, and 11 patients exhibited changes of diffuse esophageal spasm.
Pretzel
Definition:
(n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republican lawmakers ... are twisting themselves into pretzels.
(2) I take you very, very seriously.” Pretzell and Petry are like Bonnie and Clyde, pursuing a course of ambush through the German public Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel Not for a long time has so much been written and said about a single German politician (other than Merkel).
(3) 8.24pm BST Ruby can't remember what a pretzel looks like.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frauke Petry with her partner, AfD MEP Marcus Pretzell.
(5) If only Lego had left out pretzel and diner girls, and added a female mountain climber and a female constable.
(6) Apart from our scientists, there is a "Lady Robot" (who exists mainly to party), a "Pretzel Girl", a "Diner Waitress" (who will boss you about if you don't agree with her recommendation of which burger is best for you), and "Grandma".
(7) On the innervated myotonic atrophy (MA) muscle fibers, 96% of acetylcholinesterase-stained patches were simple, and only 4% appeared as complicated, pretzel-like, more mature-looking structures; on control innervated fibers, 37% of the acetylcholinesterase patches had the mature appearance.
(8) There were also three sacks of potatoes, one bag of flour, another of rolled oats, boxes of raisins, a single bag of pretzels and one granola bar.
(9) Within the confines of our little picket-fenced tent, we threw ourselves into the challenges of picnic pies and pretzels, shaking, terrified, dosed up on adrenaline and Rescue Remedy.
(10) In all compounds tested the larvae developed to the active pretzel stage.
(11) Despite that move, there have been suggestions that Pretzell is responsible for Petry feeling increasingly comfortable about keeping the party on a rightwing populist course.
(12) Is anyone else finding pretzels a bit of a boring choice for the final?
(13) The cocktails are old-fashioned and delicious, all served in frosty-cold vintage glasses, with pretzels on the side.
(14) 8.21pm BST They all look confused like they've never seen a pretzel before.
(15) G7 summit: Ukraine, Greek bailout and climate top agenda for Bavaria meeting Read more Alpine horns and locals in traditional dress greeted the US president as he arrived in Krün, a village close to the G7 venue of Schloss Elmau, before the two leaders sat down to a breakfast of the local sausage, weisswurst , a glass of weissbier and pretzels.
(16) But then don't dictate culture by making female pretzel girls.
(17) Anyone who has seen him live will confirm how hard he works onstage too: gurning, hyperventilating, knotting his rubbery limbs into pretzel shapes like a cartoon character; within minutes he’s drenched in sweat and he famously gets through a suit every three days.
(18) I’m still thinking about the glories of its duck meatloaf ($29), and the pretzel-crusted chocolate stout cheesecake ($10) should probably be illegal.
(19) Examples include a “corkscrew stretch” and “pretzel twist” to help students re-energise.
(20) 8.30pm BST Kim basically wins because her's were least unlike a pretzel.