crackers

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crackers

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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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plural plural of cracker

noun

South Africa, plural, plural only A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers. Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.
plural, plural only, slang Testicles.

adjective more crackers · most crackers

UK, colloquial Crazy, insane. “I will call up Demons to destroy thee!” “You're crackers,” said Carrot, backing away.
Similar: 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, fey, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy, batchy, batpoop, bats

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Closest in meaning: buggy, haywire, cracked, loopy, balmy, nuts, fruity, nutty, wacky, dotty, batty, insane, bats, daft, bonkers, barmy

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@misc{crackers_2026,
  title = {crackers},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crackers},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}