Cracker

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Cracker may refer to:

• Cracker (food), a thin crisp biscuit or wafer, usually salted or savory
• Christmas cracker, traditional British Christmas toy or decoration which gives a loud 'crack' when opened
• Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta Georgia
• Florida cracker, A Florida native born and raised in Florida, derived from the 19th century slang for someone who cracks a bull whip to move herds of cattle.
• Cracker butterflies, a genus of butterfly from the Neotropics
• Cracker (pejorative), an abusive or slang term for a white person
• Software cracker, someone who circumvents copy protection in computer software
• a catalytic cracker used in oil refineries, see Fluid catalytic cracking
• a derogatory term for the Eucharist
• a derogatory term for white people
• a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip to produce a cracking sound
• another name for a firecracker
• a device used to open small compressed gas cartridges such as whipped-cream chargers
• a person who carries out illegal safe cracking
• in computing, cracker may refer to a black hat computer hacker
• password cracking, the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system.

[edit] In entertainment

• Cracker (band), a rock music band
  • Cracker (album), their first album
• Cracker (comic), a British children's comic
• Cracker (UK TV series), a television crime drama series
• Cracker (US TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series
• Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
• The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats
• Sonic Crackers, an April 1994 prototype version of what would become Knuckles' Chaotix

[edit] See also

• Crack
• Cracking
• Crackerjack (disambiguation)

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