Cracker 5982 224613227 2008-07-09T17:36:28Z 199.43.13.100 {{Wiktionary}} '''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)]] {{disambig}} [[de:Cracker]] [[es:Cracker (desambiguación)]] [[fr:Cracker]]