From whip + cracker. <span class="searchmatch">whipcracker</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">whipcrackers</span>) One who cracks a whip. 1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65: The second Adigar...
<span class="searchmatch">whipcrackers</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">whipcracker</span>...
The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen <span class="searchmatch">whipcrackers</span>. 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward...
soda cracker steam cracker table cracker water cracker Waterloo cracker <span class="searchmatch">whipcracker</span> wit-cracker crack crispy baked bread, usually salty or savoury short...