Cracker

Crackers are a type of biscuit.

Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may also refer to:

Animals

• Hamadryas (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
• Sparodon, a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"

Computing

• Computer cracker, a security hacker who maliciously exploits weaknesses in a computer or network
• Software cracker, a person who uses reverse engineering to remove software copy protections
• Safecracker, a person who breaks open safes, usually to rob them

Media, arts and entertainment

Films

• Crackers (1984 film), an American film starring Sean Penn
• Crackers (1998 film), an Australian film
• Crackers (2011 film), a Bollywood film

Literature

• Crackers (Captain Underpants), a comic book character
• Cracker (comic), a British children's comic

Music

• Cracker (band), an American rock band
  • Cracker (album), the debut studio album by the American rock band Cracker, released on March 10, 1992
• The Crackers, a 1968 pseudonym of the band The Merseybeats
• Crackers: The Christmas Party Album, an album by the British glam rock band Slade
• "Crackers" (song), a 1980 song by Barbara Mandrell

Television

• Cracker (British TV series), a television crime drama series
  • Cracker (American TV series), the American remake of the British television series

People

• Georgia cracker, 19th–20th century cattle drivers of the Georgia plains
• Florida cracker, 19th–20th century cattle drivers of the Florida scrub regions
• Miz Cracker, American drag queen
• Kane Gamble, a British hacker known under the pseudonym Cracka

Places

• Cracker, a mountain peak in Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana
  • Cracker (benchmark), its benchmark summit

Other uses

• Cracker, a petrochemical industry component used for cracking
• Cracker (term), a derogatory term for a white person
• Christmas cracker, a traditional British Christmas toy or decoration
• Operation Crackers, a British Commando raid during the Second World War
• Atlanta Crackers, an American baseball team from Atlanta, Georgia
• "The Cracker," a railroad train of the Southern Railway operating from Atlanta to Valdosta
• Cracker, a length of twine or string at the end of a whip that produces a cracking sound
• Firecracker, commonly shortened to "cracker" in Indian English

See also

• Atlanta Black Crackers, a professional baseball team which played in the Negro leagues
• Cracking (disambiguation)
• Craker, a surname