saltine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
Noun[edit]
saltine (plural saltines)
- (Canada, US) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
- (Canada, US, ethnic slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person").
Translations[edit]
salty cracker
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