firecrackers

As usual I passed it off as firecrackers from the kids in the block over the way and got on with my work.

Scripting News for 4/18/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

Try not to hurt yourselves with fake munitions (aka firecrackers).

drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2006

"We are up against cultural belief that firecrackers drive away bad spirits," he said, "but what the public should know is that the firecrackers are the evil spirits themselves."

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

I teach kids to put together red-white-and-blue toilet-paper-tube "firecrackers" for the 4th of July, and I make a ridiculously mean chocolate chip cookie.

I Helped Pay for That, Too, Senator McCain 2010

I teach kids to put together red-white-and-blue toilet-paper-tube "firecrackers" for the 4th of July, and I make a ridiculously mean chocolate chip cookie.

Mary Lyon: I Helped Pay for That, Too, Senator McCain 2010

But hundreds of years before gunpowder's discovery, the Chinese were using "firecrackers" already, to scare away evil spirits, and (later) at most celebrations (such as weddings).

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [84] -- The Rockets' Red Glare, The Bombs Bursting In Air 2009

He referred to the Qassam rockets launched by Hamas toward Israel as "firecrackers".

Stephen Elliott: My Middle East Vacation 2008

I teach kids to put together red-white-and-blue toilet-paper-tube "firecrackers" for the 4th of July, and I make a ridiculously mean chocolate chip cookie.

Mary Lyon: I Helped Pay for That, Too, Senator McCain 2008

Derrick also taught us how to make "firecrackers" .... which were crackers and peanut butter with pot sprinkled on them.

MIKE unclebob 2000

Capt du Plessis said after she heard the "firecrackers", chaos ensued as people dived onto the floor.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994