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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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2
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crackers
  1. psychotic
  2. hackers
  3. blowers
  4. mad
  5. brags
  6. nuts
  7. braggarts
  8. insane
Adjective
  • Devlin said eight jurors including herself began deliberation believing that Clancy, 36, was experiencing a psychotic episode when her children were killed in suburban Boston.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Her defense, however, argued that Clancy killed her children after suffering a postpartum psychotic break.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of psychotic
Noun
  • The dark web site that was selling the 153 million driver’s licenses appears to have been removed, but the hackers could easily spin up a new site or sell the information to other cybercriminals through private channels.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
  • OpenAI in July disclosed its autonomous agents successfully breached AI platform Hugging Face, while Anthropic in April took steps to limit the rollout of its Mythos AI model over concerns hackers could leverage it for cyberattacks.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of hackers
Noun
  • The blowers must purse their lips in just the right spot and exercise extraordinary breath control.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The counter protesters came in force wielding massive flags, signs and automatic bubble blowers.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of blowers
Adjective
  • Largely through the medium of Facebook, Kanarek had driven Barisone mad.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Behind his graying beard, his expression crackled between a scowl and a mad grin.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of mad
Noun
  • 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
  • Like any good barbecue IRL, the chat is mostly meat pics, cooking tips (with a dose of half-brags) and occasional smack talk.
    — Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Definition of brags
Adjective
  • The current situation is nuts, between Lane Kiffin down in Louisiana trying to bring NFL players back to college sports, or up in Lubbock and Brendan Sorsby being allowed to play.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 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
  • That everyone commits so fearlessly — and with such straight faces — to the Zellners’ berserk world-building is a joy to behold, aided by a terrific jukebox soundtrack and a chaotic, entropic plot that builds and builds to insane levels of carnage.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Sure, this sounds insane, but the real insanity is how much New York mismanages its education system and how little attention the problem receives in Albany.
    — Zilvinas "Z" Silenas, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of insane
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