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saltine

/sɔlˈtin/

saltine noun: a thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

Noun

saltine (plural saltines)

  1. (Canada, US) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
  2. (Canada, US, ethnic, slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

saltine meaning in Urdu and Bengali

saltine in Urdu

نمکین بسکٹ

saltine in Bengali

একটি পাতলা, মুচমুচে, নোনতা, সাধারণত সাদা রঙের ক্র্যাকার, একটি সোডা ক্র্যাকার, একটি সোডা বিস্কুট

Forms of saltine

pluralsaltines

Origin of saltine

Genericized trademark. Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

Questions about saltine

What does saltine mean?
Saltine means a thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
What is saltine in Urdu?
Saltine in Urdu is نمکین بسکٹ. See Saltine meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is saltine?
Saltine is a noun.
How do you pronounce saltine?
Saltine is pronounced /sɔlˈtin/ (US).
What is the plural of saltine?
The plural of saltine is saltines.

Words near saltine in the dictionary

  1. saltimbanks
  2. saltimbanque
  3. saltimbanques
  4. saltimbocca
  5. saltimboccas
  6. saltine
  7. saltines
  8. saltiness
  9. saltinesses
  10. salting
  11. salting away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saltine (page history and authors); saltine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saltine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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