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Meanings of firecracker in English

Russian
петарда
Portuguese
panchão
Spanish
petardo
Catalan
petard
Wikidata

Small explosive device primarily designed to make noise.

петарда
Synonyms
Examples for "cracker"
Examples for "cracker"
1
Dip in egg, then in cracker dust, and fry in deep fat.
How to Cook Fish
2
Explain the change that has taken place in the cracker by mastication.
School and Home Cooking
3
Dip in egg and roll in cracker crumbs, and fry as usual.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
4
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
The new yorker
5
Make into balls, roll in cracker dust and fry in boiling lard.
Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book
1
Nothing less than a two-verse banger as a response will be tolerated.
The South African
2
We're betting it will have a small four-banger, perhaps with a turbo.
Wired
3
How does a gang banger get trained like that? Her phone rang.
Heat Rises
4
On the podcast today we wonder what makes the best banger?
Radio NZ
5
Imagine if Bernard Herrmann decided to make an acid house banger… Ah, Justice.
The Irish Times
1
Of course that is not a bona fide ghost but it may be the noise maker.
Jane Allen, Junior
2
In Seine in the membrane Paris's nouvelle vague noise makers... Para One Who?
The Guardian
3
If the people are contrite, well and good; if not, he brings noise makers into the field against them.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
4
The writer describes the various drummers who arrive, the noise makers they bring, and how they go about their drumming, dancing, whistling.
The new yorker
5
Both suspects were arrested, and Councillor Sun warned residents and " noise makers" that it's not worth spending the festive season behind bars.
The South African
Usage of firecracker in English
1
With her short red hair, she can come across as a firecracker.
Escape
2
Another fortunate effect of the firecracker explosion had been to rouse Stella.
Marjorie's Vacation
3
Janette, tiny and feisty as a firecracker, was on her feet, too.
Mine
4
It would have blown her up like a firecracker inside a melon.
Flesh and blood
5
It sounded like a firecracker and then didn't sound like a firecracker.
News.com.au
6
Anya says it was like someone shoved a firecracker up his ass.
Aspho Fields
7
They run and leap like frogs with a firecracker up their ass.
Creepers
8
He saw the street rough throw a lighted firecracker at the other machine.
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; Or, The Strange Cruise of the S...
9
If the cigar and opium factories shocked us, the firecracker factory appalled us.
The Log of the Empire State
10
Then she hears the firecracker noises of gunfire behind her, an automatic weapon.
Night of knives
11
One could more safely confuse an atomic bomb with a firecracker.
The Kingmaker
12
I was in the audience and I heard what sounded like a firecracker.
The Guardian
13
As quick as a flash Dick leaned forward and caught up the firecracker.
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; Or, The Strange Cruise of the S...
14
But even Gustavo Dudamel initially struggled to show his now famous firecracker qualities.
The Guardian
15
The sound of the vertebrae shattering in his neck is like a firecracker.
City of lies
16
It is a firecracker of a film, exploding with crazy energy.
The Guardian
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Translations for firecracker
Spanish
petardo
Firecracker through the time
Firecracker across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common