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Cracker


Cracker


Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:

Animals

  • Hamadryas (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
  • Sparodon, a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"

Arts and entertainment

Films

  • Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
  • Crackers (1998 film), an Australian film
  • Crackers (2011 film), a Bollywood film

Music

  • Cracker (band), an American rock band
    • Cracker (album), the debut studio album by the American rock band Cracker, released on March 10, 1992
  • Crackers (song), a 1980 song by Barbara Mandrell
  • Crackers: The Christmas Party Album, an album by the British glam rock band Slade
  • The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats

Television

  • Cracker (British TV series), a television crime drama series
    • Cracker (U.S. TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Crackers (Captain Underpants), a comic book character
  • Cracker (comic), a British children's comic

People

  • Cracker (term), a derogatory term for a person of white European descent
  • Computer cracker, a security hacker who maliciously exploits weaknesses in a computer or network
  • Software cracker, a person who uses reverse engineering to remove software copy protections
  • Safecracker, a person who breaks open safes, usually to rob them
  • Georgia cracker, 19th–20th century cattle drivers of the Georgia plains
  • Florida cracker, 19th–20th century cattle drivers of the Florida scrub regions
  • Miz Cracker, American drag queen

Places

  • Cracker, a mountain peak in Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana
    • Cracker (benchmark), its benchmark summit

Other uses

  • Cracker (food), a type of biscuit, usually salted or savoury
  • Cracker, a petrochemical industry component used for cracking
  • Christmas cracker, a traditional British Christmas toy or decoration
  • Operation Crackers, a British Commando raid during the Second World War
  • Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta, Georgia
  • "The Cracker," a railroad train of the Southern Railway operating from Atlanta to Valdosta
  • Cracker, a length of twine or string at the end of a whip that produces a cracking sound
  • Firecracker, commonly shortened to "cracker" in Indian English

See also

  • Atlanta Black Crackers, a professional baseball team which played in the Negro leagues
  • Cracking (disambiguation)
  • Craker, a surname

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Cracker by Wikipedia (Historical)