cracker barrel

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English

Noun

cracker barrel (plural cracker barrels)

  1. A barrel for holding crackers.
    • 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
      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, Martha Bennett Stiles, Sailing to Freedom, page 13:
      I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!”

Adjective

cracker barrel (comparative more cracker barrel, superlative most cracker barrel)

  1. Alternative form of cracker-barrel
    • 2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America, page 86:
      He was, according to Fortune, “the Mississippi Yankee, the clever bumpkin, the homespun, rail-splitting, cracker barrel simplifier of national issues.”
    • 2008, Alan Lazzari, Heat Of The Fire:
      Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes.
    • 2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79:
      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).