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cracker barrel

cracker barrel noun: a barrel for holding crackers. Also the alternative form of cracker-barrel.

Noun

cracker barrel (plural cracker barrels)

  1. A barrel for holding crackers.
    • The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room).2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79
    • I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!”2012, Martha Bennett Stiles, Sailing to Freedom, page 13

Also used as

cracker barrel is also the alternative form of cracker-barrel.

Forms of cracker barrel

Noun
pluralcracker barrels
Adjective
comparativemore cracker barrel
superlativemost cracker barrel

Questions about cracker barrel

What does cracker barrel mean?
Cracker barrel means a barrel for holding crackers.
What part of speech is cracker barrel?
Cracker barrel is a noun.
What is the plural of cracker barrel?
The plural of cracker barrel is cracker barrels.

Words near cracker barrel in the dictionary

  1. cracked-wheat breads
  2. crackedly
  3. crackedness
  4. Crackenback
  5. cracker
  6. cracker barrel
  7. cracker barrels
  8. cracker bonbon
  9. cracker bonbons
  10. cracker bread
  11. cracker breads

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