CRACKERS Synonyms: 124 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈkra-kərz

Definition of crackers

informal + disparaging

as in psychotic

unable to think in a clear or sensible way He spends too much time working on his inventions, and I think he's gone a little crackers.

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crackers

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a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information a cracker who had broken into the intelligence agency's database attempted to leak the classified information

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as in cocks

chiefly dialect someone who boasts you're a fool if you believe half of what that cracker says

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Adjective

Prosecutors, on the other hand, have attempted to prove that Clancy was not psychotic and that the killings were deliberate.

— Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Mack testified last Friday and this past Monday that Clancy was not psychotic at the time of the killings and retained her capacity to understand right from wrong and control her behavior.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of psychotic

Noun

The hackers allegedly built infrastructure that could scan for vulnerable devices, compromise them and then use those devices as cover.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
This violates right-to-delete laws, and worse, hackers can reverse-engineer those leftover AI files to steal sensitive health data.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hackers

Adjective

But throughout that, and much more important than the rivalry and being mad at each other or whatever, is just this absolute unending love.

— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
What mad honey does to the human body When a human eats more than about a teaspoon of this honey, the toxin interferes with how the heart muscle generates its electrical signals.

— Prayan Pokharel, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of mad

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The entertainment industry is no stranger to individuals who espouse contested stories about screen hits, but the producers of Legacy of Lies have grown tired of his brags.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Like any good barbecue IRL, the chat is mostly meat pics, cooking tips (with a dose of half-brags) and occasional smack talk.

— Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

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