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Cracker may refer to:
- Cracker (food), a thin crisp biscuit or wafer, usually salted or savoury
- 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, an American pioneer settler of the 19th century in the state of Florida
- Georgia cracker, an American pioneer settler of the 19th century in the state of Georgia
- 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 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.
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
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