cracker-barrel

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cracker-barrel

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Attributive form of cracker barrel. From the image of a group of locals sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store talking together.

adjective more cracker-barrel · most cracker-barrel · crackerbarrel · cracker barrel

US Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people. Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural.
Similar: homespun, down-home

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@misc{cracker_barrel_2026,
  title = {cracker-barrel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cracker-barrel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}