Historical usage. The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning 'entertaining conversation' (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a ...

A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square cracker usually made from white flour, sometimes yeast (although many are yeast free), and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt.It has perforations over its surface, as well as a distinctively dry and crisp texture. Some familiar brand names of saltine crackers in the Americas are Christie's …

El término cracker o cráquer (literalmente traducido como rompedor, del inglés to crack, que significa romper o quebrar) se utiliza para referirse a las personas que rompen o vulneran algún sistema de seguridad [1] de forma ilícita. Los crackers pueden estar motivados por una multitud de razones, incluyendo fines de lucro, protesta, o por el desafío. [2]