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Cracker may refer to:

  • Cracker (computing), a person who engages in illegal system cracking or software cracking, circumventing computer security systems; also known as a black hat hacker
  • Cracker (food), a thin, crisp, edible wafer, usually salty rather than sweet (also called "biscuit")
  • Christmas cracker, a British Christmas tradition
  • Cracker (pejorative), a slang term for a white person, usually considered pejorative; a white person who robs the culture of a minority and then later gives them absolutely no credit for it
  • Cracker butterflies, a genus of butterfly from the Neotropics

In entertainment:

Cracker may also refer to:

  • A short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip (because of the cracking noise it produces)
  • Someone who smokes or sells crack cocaine
  • A colloquial abbreviation for firecracker
  • Slang for an attractive girl
  • A device for dispensing a whipped-cream charger

See also

crackers can also refer to someone who is insane