Corn-cracker State

See also: Corn cracker State and Corncracker State

English

Alternative forms

• Corncracker State
• Corn cracker State

Proper noun

the Corn-cracker State

1. An unofficial nickname for Kentucky, a state of the United States.
   • 2000, Steven A. Channing, Encyclopedia of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 3:

     The five sobriquets by which Kentucky is designated are: the Blue Grass State, the Corn-cracker State, the Dark and Bloody Ground State, the Hemp State, and the Tobacco State.