Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin crisp cracker sprinkled with coarse salt.
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- noun US A thin, crisp, salted, white-colored
cracker , asoda cracker ; the most common of all US crackers; (UK ) soda biscuit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking
Etymologies
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Examples
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Halophiles (halophilic bacteria) - these only thrive in a salty environment, such as saltine lakes.
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Lots of great recipes ... one of my simple favorites is to cube them in small chunks, dip them in egg/milk batter and then roll the chunk in crushed saltine crackers with lemmon pepper.
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Hope, with Joy perched on her hip, crossed to my nightstand and placed a package of saltine crackers next to the water glass.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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HE dumps salt on almost everything, even saltine crackers.
Peanut butter and bacon sandwich – Mayor Bloomberg – impossible pairing? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Bring some kippered herring with some saltine crackers ... and oh man, I have a meal!
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I remember how my grammy would take the little packets of saltine crackers from the restaurant table much to my utter mortification "just in case."
Julie Gray: Do You Own Stuff, or Does Stuff Own You? Julie Gray 2011
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Best Use Very creamy and smooth, it's ideal spread on easily breakable saltine crackers, delicate crumpets or thin, crisp toast.
Plusher Pats 2011
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Lots of great recipes ... one of my simple favorites is to cube them in small chunks, dip them in egg/milk batter and then roll the chunk in crushed saltine crackers with lemmon pepper.
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I remember how my grammy would take the little packets of saltine crackers from the restaurant table much to my utter mortification "just in case."
Julie Gray: Do You Own Stuff, or Does Stuff Own You? Julie Gray 2011
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Bring some kippered herring with some saltine crackers ... and oh man, I have a meal!
mollusque commented on the word saltine
saline, saltine, saltines, saltiness
March 29, 2009