cracker n.1
1. (UK Und.) the backside.
![]() | Canting Academy (2nd edn). | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cracker, c. an Arse. | |
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2. (S.Afr.) in pl., sheep-skin trousers.
![]() | C.G.H. Literary Gazetter 2 Sept. 238: Old Crackers alias leather breeches. | |
![]() | Autobiog. of Sir Harry Smith II 348: You [...] would laugh to see our motley group, with every costume of a mean kind [...] the 72nd’s men with crackers. | |
![]() | Kloof and Karroo 199: Klaus looked pretty well ‘baked’ even in his old leather ‘crackers’. | |
![]() | Africanderisms 131: Crackers Trousers of prepared sheep-skin, largely used in the early days by the settlers, and so named because of the cracking noise which they made at every move of the wearer. |