- Cracker
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Cracker may refer to:
- Cracker (food), a type of biscuit, usually salted or savory edible
- Cracker (mountain), a mountain peak in Glacier National Park
- Cracker (benchmark), located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana
- Christmas cracker, traditional British Christmas toy or decoration which gives a loud 'crack' when opened
- Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta, Georgia
- Cracker (pejorative), a slang, sometimes abusive term for a Southern white person
- Florida cracker, a Florida native descended from early pioneer settlers
- Georgia cracker, a Georgia native descended from early pioneer settlers
- Hamadryas (butterfly), a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the Crackers, Calicoes, or Clicks
- Cracking (chemistry), the process whereby complex organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules
- a term for wafer-style Sacramental bread
- a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip to produce a cracking sound
- a firecracker, a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang; any visual effect is incidental to this goal
- a device used to open small compressed gas cartridges such as whipped-cream chargers
- a person who performs safe-cracking
- Atlanta Black Crackers, a professional baseball team which played in the Negro League
- Operation Crackers, a British Commando raid during the Second World War
In computing
- In computing, a hacker who breaks or circumvents security, including:
- computer security hacker, that is, someone who breaks into computers, regardless of intent. Used by computer programming hackers to stress the differences between the two occupations and philosophies.
- black-hat hacker, that is, someone who breaks into computers with malicious or criminal intentions. Used by white hat computer security hackers to stress the difference in ethics.
- software cracker, someone who modifies software to remove or disable copy protection and digital rights management features
- password cracker, someone who recovers encrypted passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system or associated to accounts as a measure for restricting access to a computer.
In entertainment
- Cracker (band), a rock music band
- Cracker (album), their first album
- Cracker (comics), a British children's comic
- Cracker (UK TV series), a television crime drama series
- Cracker (U.S. TV series), the U.S. remake of the British television series
- Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
- Crackers (1998 film), an Australian film
- The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats
- Sonic Crackers, an April 1994 prototype version of what would become Knuckles' Chaotix
- Crackers (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
- Crackers International, an EP released by Erasure in 1988, in between the albums The Innocents and Wild!
- Crackers (Captain Underpants)
- Crackers – The Christmas Party Album, an album by the British glam rock band Slade
- Crackers – Accountant., may have been killed by Jennings for killing Adam the parrot.
See also
- Crack (disambiguation)
- Cracking (disambiguation)
- Crackerjack (disambiguation)
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