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corn-cracker

/kawrn-krak-er/US // ˈkɔrnˌkræk ər //

玉米脆片,玉米饼干,玉米饼,玉米脆饼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

    • : a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.

Examples

  • David Lowery of Camper von Beethoven and Cracker made this case in a viral post from 2012.

  • For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.

  • I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.

  • That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!

  • Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.

  • And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.

  • The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.

  • I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.

  • The Vine appears at intervals, but is not general through this region: Indian Corn is also rare, and appears in small patches.

  • Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.