Crossword clues for firecracker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cracker \Crack"er\ (kr[a^]k"[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, cracks.
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A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.]
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
--Shak. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- usually called firecracker.
A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
--Bartlett.(Zo["o]l.) The pintail duck.
pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
--Knight.
firecracker \fire"crack`er\, n. A small explosive device consisting of a paper or cardboard cylinder having only sufficient explosive mixture to make a loud bang, ignited by a short fuse, and used mostly as an entertainment or in celebrations. Same as Cracker., n., 3.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-cracker, "exploding paper cylinder," 1830, American English coinage for what is in England a cracker, but the U.S. word distinguishes it from the word meaning "biscuit." See fire (n.) + agent noun from crack (v.).\n\nSec 2 And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person to burn, explode or throw any burning fire cracker, squib, turpentine balls or fire serpents in this state.
[act of the General Assembly of the state of New Jersey, Feb. 18, 1835]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A firework consisting of a string of bangers linked by a fuse designed to emit a series of loud bangs when lit. Traditionally used in Chinese celebrations (e.g. Chinese New Year) to scare off ghosts and bad spirits and to bring good luck. 2 A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie. 3 A person who is exciting and/or unpredictable.(attention en improve definition, please)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A firecracker (cracker, noise maker, banger, or bunger) is 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. They have fuses, and are wrapped in a heavy paper casing to contain the explosive compound. Firecrackers, along with fireworks, originated in China.
Firecracker is a Grammy-nominated album by Lisa Loeb. It was released in 1997 through Geffen Records.
Cheva Chonin of Rolling Stone noted that the "endearing naivete and frothy, indie-rock guitar" of her debut album had been replaced "by staid arrangements and lackluster riffs."
The album was certified Gold in the U.S. and Canada and was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Firecracker is the second album by The Wailin' Jennys.
The album was rated the #2 folk album of 2006 in North America by total airplay, and the #1 Canadian album. The initial track, "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" by Annabelle Chvostek, was rated the #1 Canadian song for 2006 by total airplay.
The album was nominated for the 2007 Juno Award for "Roots and Traditional Album of the Year by a Group" and for "Contemporary Folk Album of the Year" by the North American Folk Alliance.
Firecracker is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise.
Firecracker may also refer to:
Firecracker is a 2005 thriller film directed by Steve Balderson, starring Karen Black and Mike Patton, who each play two major roles. Patton and Jak Kendall play brothers David and Jimmy, who live in a small Kansas town in the 1950s and have an abusive relationship. Both brothers become involved with Sandra (Black), a singer with the traveling carnival that visits the town each summer. Sandra is also trapped in an abusive relationship with the carnival owner Frank (also played by Patton). When the carnival leaves town, David also disappears, leading to an investigation of his apparent murder.
"Firecracker" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released in June 2007 as the lead-off single from Turner's album Everything Is Fine, which was released on MCA Nashville on October 30, 2007. His fastest-climbing single, the song reached a peak of number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Turner wrote this song with Shawn Camp and Pat McLaughlin.
Usage examples of "firecracker".
Calder who was new to the town and had gone bang like a ladyfinger with some of him left, like those little firecrackers that never quite went all up.
Starflash was a shotgun-fired grenade built of seven to twelve submunitions that exploded like a string of powerful firecrackers.
A string of firecrackers went off less than a block away, adding to the general tumult.
Ballantine, if you had a child whose paternity you had to deny, if you felt guilty about that and wanted to do something extra for that child, what better way than to give her a firecracker to beat all firecrackers and let her light it when and if she saw fit?
They both jumped as whistles blew and firecrackers exploded and the sound of cheering filled the street.
When they hit the water, and part of them hit the plane, there was a rippling roar as if a bundle of firecrackers had been lighted and tossed.
When Firecracker was sure she was gone, he reached down into the recesses of his bedsheets and pulled out a crumpled roll of Teleprompter paper.
STRIPPED of the firecrackers, the fact seemed to be this: the President of Blanca Grande had heard about the attack on their plane and had come to offer his personal regrets that such a thing had happened.
But Hoxworth Hale, whose wife pointed out that the blindings and maimings were exactly what her bill had been intended to prevent, remarked glumly to The Fort: "We must never again outrage the firecracker vote.
When the cancerette burns down, it sets off the firecracker which in turn explodes and ignites the mixture.
A couple newer residents got discharged late in Gately's treatment for tossing firecrackers into the crowd of catatonics on the lawn to see if they could get them to jump around or display affect.
All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns he could never tell them apart and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.
Trev screamed back at him, and then there was this loud BANG\ like a firecracker, only what it was, it was the heat exploding Marty Devereaux's bass drum.
All right, I'll give you credit for having had another firecracker equally big up your sleeve.
The still-glowing night at Dungeness almost a year ago when her surprise eighteenth birthday party had been broken into by the British--and by John--had begun such a dizzying change in everything for Anne, her need to share it today was like an Independence Day firecracker waiting to explode.