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Cracker vs. Honky — What's the Difference?

Cracker vs. Honky — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cracker and Honky

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Cracker

A person or thing that cracks.

Honky

Honky (also spelled honkie or sometimes honkey) is an ethnic slur used against white people, predominantly heard in the United States. The first recorded use of "honky" in this context may date back to 1946, although the use of "honky-tonk" occurred in films well before that time.

Cracker

A decorated paper cylinder which, when pulled apart, makes a sharp noise and releases a small toy or other novelty
A Christmas cracker

Honky

Used as a disparaging term for a white person.

Cracker

A thin dry biscuit, typically eaten with cheese
The sausage is delicious on hot toast or crackers
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Honky

A white (Caucasian) person.

Cracker

A fine example of something
Don't miss this cracker of a CD

Honky

A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

Cracker

Another term for poor white

Honky

A white (caucasian) person; - a term used by some African-Americans, intended to be disparaging and often taken as offensive.

Cracker

A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.

Honky

Offensive names for a White man

Cracker

A firecracker.

Cracker

A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.

Cracker

The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.

Cracker

One who gains unauthorized access to a computer or computer network, usually for a malicious purpose such as to steal information or damage programs. See Usage Note at hacker.

Cracker

(Offensive) Used as a disparaging term for a white person, especially one who is poor and from the southeast United States.

Cracker

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

Cracker

A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

Cracker

A firecracker.

Cracker

A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).

Cracker

The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.

Cracker

A Christmas cracker.

Cracker

Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker

Cracker

A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
She's an absolute cracker!
The show was a cracker!
A cracker of a day.

Cracker

An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

Cracker

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Script kiddie

Cracker

(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

Cracker

An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

Cracker

A police officer.

Cracker

A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.

Cracker

(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Cracker

One who, or that which, cracks.

Cracker

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?

Cracker

A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - usually called firecracker.

Cracker

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

Cracker

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

Cracker

The pintail duck.

Cracker

A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Cracker

A thin crisp wafer made or flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet

Cracker

A poor white person in the southern United States

Cracker

A programmer who `cracks' (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things;
Crackers are often mistakenly called hackers

Cracker

Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing

Cracker

A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends

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