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adjective

ˈkra-kərz How to pronounce crackers (audio)
Definition of crackersnext
informal + disparaging
as in psychotic
unable to think in a clear or sensible way He spends too much time working on his inventions, and I think he's gone a little crackers.

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crackers

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noun

plural of cracker
1
as in hackers
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information a cracker who had broken into the intelligence agency's database attempted to leak the classified information

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as in cocks
chiefly dialect someone who boasts you're a fool if you believe half of what that cracker says

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  1. psychotic
  2. hackers
  3. blowers
  4. mad
  5. brags
  6. nuts
  7. braggarts
  8. insane
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, his doctor interprets all the screaming about an alien presence in Thomas’ head as a garden-variety psychotic breakdown, and remands him to a more secure facility.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • It may also be used to treat certain other psychotic conditions, such as psychosis arising in Parkinson disease.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of psychotic
Noun
  • How hackers broke into Oracle Health's older systems The trouble began in early 2025.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The hackers also obtained access to unique student identifier numbers as well as information about gender, race or ethnicity, primary language, country of origin and English learner status.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of hackers
Noun
  • Those concerns stretch across the realities of AI’s growth today and more speculative possibilities raised by some technologists and whistle-blowers.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The group was launched with support from the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit that advocates for whistle-blowers.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of blowers
Adjective
  • Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary theorist and author of the groundbreaking best seller The Selfish Gene (1976), among many other books, appears to have gone a bit mad.
    — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Mel Brooks’ comedy The Producers also took a poke at that mad man with Springtime for Hitler.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of mad
Noun
  • One of the Roundhouse’s biggest brags is an extensive liquor collection, highlighting spirits produced in New York State.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The entertainment industry is no stranger to individuals who espouse contested stories about screen hits, but the producers of Legacy of Lies have grown tired of his brags.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Definition of brags
Adjective
  • No, per the official underneath that goalpost — meaning Virginia Tech lost to Pitt 35-33 even though practically everyone at Lane Stadium was going nuts thinking the Hokies had won it as time expired.
    — Matt Piper, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The fact anyone tries to use John Brown to take the moral high ground is nuts.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • Christ did do some name calling, but his ire was directed at the powerful, the braggarts, the hypocrites — the Pratts of his time.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
Definition of braggarts
Adjective
  • Many have told me that Veronica Beard has copied more small brands, this is insane.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Has everyone made it through an insane weekend of college football with their sanity intact?
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
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