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Firecracker   /fˈaɪərkrˌækər/   Listen
Firecracker

noun
1.
Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing.  Synonyms: banger, cracker.






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"Firecracker" Quotes from Famous Books



... not even the firecracker Miss Alice sets off under the chair of the false count," replied the ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope

... waving flame he lit the punk—a firecracker caught a spark,— Then rockets and wheels and bombs went off—no longer the place was dark! The explosions made a fearful noise, the flames leaped high and higher, The village folk awoke and cried, "The town hall is on fire!" So the strike of the fireworks ...
— The Jingle Book • Carolyn Wells

... blast beside which the most terrific flash of lightning ever seen on Earth would have seemed like a firecracker. In what was almost a vacuum though she was, the whole immense mass of the Procyon was hurled upward like the cork out of a champagne bottle. And as for what it felt like—since the five who experienced it could never describe ...
— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith



Words linked to "Firecracker" :   cracker, cherry bomb, banger, whizbang, cannon cracker, whizzbang, pyrotechnic, firework



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