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cracker barrel en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cracker-barrel.
    • He was, according to Fortune, “the Mississippi Yankee, the clever bumpkin, the homespun, rail-splitting, cracker barrel simplifier of national issues.” 2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America, page 86:
    • The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room). 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
    • Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes. 2008, Alan Lazzari, Heat Of The Fire:

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most cracker barrel Degree=Sup lexicographic
more cracker barrel Degree=Cmp lexicographic

cracker barrel en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A barrel for holding crackers.
    • The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room). 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
    • I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!” 2012, Martha Bennett Stiles, Sailing to Freedom, page 13:

Forms

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cracker barrels Number=Plur lexicographic