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crackers.

A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.

    South-Africa · plural · plural-only
  2. Testicles.

    plural · plural-only · slang
Where this word comes from

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".

adj
  1. Crazy, insane.

    UK · colloquial
Where this word comes from

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".

noun
  1. plural of cracker

    form-of · plural
Where this word comes from

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".

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