CRACKER

Cracker

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist, Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996, and another two-hour story in 2006.

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cracker

Noun

  1. A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.
  2. 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.
  3. A firecracker.
  4. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
  5. (Perhaps from previous sense.) A native of Florida or Georgia. See
  6. A white person (pejorative). Also "white cracker". See
  7. A Christmas cracker
  8. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
  9. A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
    She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!
  10. An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
  11. One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
  12. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
  13. The pintail duck.
  14. A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; by extension: any white person.


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