CRACKER
Cracker
Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist, Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996, and another two-hour story in 2006.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cracker (UK TV series)
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cracker
Noun
- A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- A firecracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- (Perhaps from previous sense.) A native of Florida or Georgia. See
- A white person (pejorative). Also "white cracker". See
- A Christmas cracker
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
- She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- The pintail duck.
- A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Noun (etymology 2)
- An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; by extension: any white person.
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