crackers

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Definition of crackers

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of cracker
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noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of cracker
  2. (South-Africa, plural, plural-only)A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
    “Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.”
  3. (plural, plural-only, slang)Testicles.

adj

  1. (UK, colloquial)Crazy, insane.
    ““I will call up Demons to destroy thee!” “You're crackers,” said Carrot, backing away.”
    “He acknowledges that it must seem "a crackers thing to say", but given the substantial progress which has been made in other areas of the business, his optimism isn't without foundation.”
    “Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, told the online magazine UnHerd in May that Truss was “as close to properly crackers as anybody I have met in parliament” and would be an “even worse” prime minister than Johnson.”

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Etymology

From cracker + -s. The South African sense is from their sound and its status as a plurale tantum by association with trousers. The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".

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