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saltine.

A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɔlˈtin/General-American/sɑlˈtin/General-American
  1. A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

    Canada · US
  2. A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

    Canada · US · ethnic · slur
Where this word comes from

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

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