English Explanatory Dictionary

crackers

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of cracker
noun
  1. A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
  2. Testicles.
adj
  1. Crazy, insane.

Word forms

crackers more crackers most crackers

Etymology

From cracker + -s. The South African sense is from their sound and its status as a plurale tantum by association with trousers. The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".

Synonyms

5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie crazy as a cootie bug crazy as a pet coon cuckoo daffy daft demented deranged distraught disturbed doolally dotty eccentric fruit loops gaga hatstand harebrained insane kooky loon loco loony loony tunes loopy lunatic mad mental mentally ill meshigener meshugge moonsick nerts non compos mentis nonsane nucking futs nut job nutballs nut
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