nutcracker

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English

Nutcracker
Clark's nutcracker, a species of genus Nucifraga
A nutcracker-style bottled cocktail

Etymology

From nut +‎ cracker.

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Noun

nutcracker (plural nutcrackers)

  1. An implement for cracking nuts.
  2. (ornithology) Either of two birds of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
  3. (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
    • 2019 August 17, Aaron Randle, “Banned on the Beach? It’s Still Nutcracker Summer”, in New York Times‎:
      The colorful bottles have popped up every summer in black and Hispanic communities — from the bodegas of Washington Heights to the stoops of Fort Greene — since the early 1990s. On beach boardwalks, at neighborhood basketball courts and block parties, New Yorkers are drinking nutcrackers, boozy homespun cocktails made from a blend of alcohol and fruit juices.
  4. (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
    • 1978, The Laboregister, volume 2, Michigan Department of Labor, page 177:
      I hadn't been to school for a while so the math was a real nutcracker

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