Cracker
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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 charger]]s
* a person who carries out illegal [[safe cracking]]
* in computing, ''cracker'' may refer to a [[black hat]] computer [[hacker (computer security)|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)|''Cracker'' (album)]], their first album
* [[Cracker (comic)|''Cracker'' (comic)]], a British children's comic
* [[Cracker (UK TV series)|''Cracker'' (UK TV series)]], a television crime drama series
* [[Cracker (US TV series)|''Cracker'' (US TV series)]], the U.S. remake of the British television series
* [[Crackers (1984 film)|''Crackers'' (1984 film)]], an American film starring Sean Penn
* [[Crackers (1998 film)|''Crackers'' (1998 film)]], an Australian comedy
* ''The Crackers'', a 1968 pseudonym of the band [[The Merseys]]
*Crackers? (2006, fireshow), a show about Risk by UK pyrotechnicians [[The World Famous Fireworkers | The World Famous]]
*[[Sonic Crackers]], an April 1994 prototype version of what would become [[Knuckles' Chaotix]]
===See also===
*[[Crack]]
*[[Cracking]]
*[[Crackerjack (disambiguation)]]
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