Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

christmas cracker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables
christ-mas crack-er
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A table decoration, in the form of a large paper sweet wrapper, constructed around a cardboard tube typically containing a paper hat, silly joke and a small novelty or toy; a pair of people pull the ends of the cracker causing an embedded device to make a crack sound as the cracker breaks in two and the contents are released.

Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

Christmas crackers (plural)

Questions

What does christmas cracker mean?
A table decoration, in the form of a large paper sweet wrapper, constructed around a cardboard tube typically containing a paper hat, silly joke and a small novelty or toy; a pair of people pull the ends of the cracker causing an embedded device to make a crack sound as the cracker breaks in two and the contents are released.

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