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firecracker

[ fahyuhr-krak-er ]

noun

  1. a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.


firecracker

/ ˈfaɪəˌkrækə /

noun

  1. a small cardboard container filled with explosive powder and lit by a fuse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. impressively energetic

    a firecracker start to the race

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of firecracker1

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30; fire + cracker
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Example Sentences

Cease’s slider — a darting and disorienting and freshly zoomy thing, like a fishing line with a firecracker at the end of it — sniped into the bottom of the strike zone, drawing puzzled looks and panicked swings.

Over the decades, the traditions of Juneteenth ripened into larger gatherings in public parks, with barbecue picnics and firecrackers and street parades with brass bands.

In her new novel, she draws on similar themes of women’s alliance and survival, this time rendered through 9-year-old Swiv and her firecracker grandmother.

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A demonstrator lobbed a string of firecrackers toward police.

The convergence of these signs lit Morris up like a firecracker.

They saw a larger societal danger lurking, one more ominous than any homemade firecracker.

How the hell did some damned kid throw a firecracker through the screen?

This has the potential to be the real firecracker game the World Cup has been waiting for.

I had to set off a pretty loud firecracker to wake those Sound & Cape fellows up.

Because when the sky-cracker gets high enough in the air the firecracker part of it will go off with a bang, and he'll be killed.

Each of us lighted a firecracker and held it with the fuse sputtering and sizzling, until they were almost opposite.

Shortly thereafter the first shot went off and it sounded to me as if it were a firecracker.

There was a tradition that somebody had once held a firecracker in his hand too long and had been badly hurt by it.

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