Definizione monolingua

cracker

cracker (plural crackers)

1. A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory 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. A Christmas cracker
6. Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
7. (chiefly UK) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).

   Shes an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!

   • 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, BBC:

     And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.

8. (computing) One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
   • 1984, Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making, Macmillan, p 137:

     It stated to one of the companys operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.

Definizione dizionario cracker

cracker

biscotto

petardo

Altri significati:

A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit.

salty bread

(chiefly UK) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).

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.

(computing) One who maliciously cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

A firecracker.

firecracker

(US, pejorative, racial slur) An impoverished white person from the SE United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; or, (by extension) white people generally.

A Christmas cracker

A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).

Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker