Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is an ethnic slur for white people,1 used especially for poor rural whites in the Southern United States. It is also at times used indiscriminately and pejoratively against any person of white background. However, it is sometimes used in a neutral or positive context or self-descriptively with pride in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida cracker and Georgia cracker).
On its own, the term jive was slang all the way back in the 1940s for, among other senses, actions that ranged from foolish and frivolous to vile and deceitful. It was in the 1970s, though, when calling these shady fools jive turkeys became a thing. Turkeys are known to gobble, adding to the sense of jive, and have been variously used to insult someone as “dull” or “worthless.”
Then, in 1974 the funk band the Ohio Players released the song “Jive Turkey,” which uses the phrase repeatedly in the lyrics: “Give me it straight baby / Jive turkey, jive turkey / Jive turkey / Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.” No doubt there are some sexual undertones here, with jive also historically referring to sex. The insult jive turkey also appeared on popular 1970s-1980s sitcoms, such as The Jeffersons.
On its own, the term jive was slang all the way back in the 1940s for, among other senses, actions that ranged from foolish and frivolous to vile and deceitful. It was in the 1970s, though, when calling these shady fools jive turkeys became a thing. Turkeys are known to gobble, adding to the sense of jive, and have been variously used to insult someone as “dull” or “worthless.”
Then, in 1974 the funk band the Ohio Players released the song “Jive Turkey,” which uses the phrase repeatedly in the lyrics: “Give me it straight baby / Jive turkey, jive turkey / Jive turkey / Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.” No doubt there are some sexual undertones here, with jive also historically referring to sex. The insult jive turkey also appeared on popular 1970s-1980s sitcoms, such as The Jeffersons.
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Get the Knock him a cracker mug.The act of folding a woman up to make them look like a piece of popcorn, pouring caramel on their jugs, putting them in a barrel, and rolling them down a hill. Best done in the cold, to let the caramel harden and resemble a piece of Cracker-jack popcorn.
Gay man 1: I got so high off cat piss, I pulled off a Cracker-Jack Barrel Rack on this one dude.
Gay man 2: Yeah, that was me.
Gay man 2: Yeah, that was me.
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Brad: "Hey Carter, hows it been?"
Carter: "Its been good, I have been making good progress on my Spiderman sex robot project! How about you?"
Brad: "I..its been fine, haha."
Carter: "Hey Brad, look over there on the sidewalk, it's a stupid reverse cracker!"
Brad: "Whats a reverse cracker?"
Carter: "The opposite of a cracker, silly!"
Brad: "So you mean a--"
Carter: "STUPID GOD DAMNED NIGGER!"
Brad: "Alright, I gotta go, see ya."
Brad: *Runs off offended as Brad is African*
Carter: "Its been good, I have been making good progress on my Spiderman sex robot project! How about you?"
Brad: "I..its been fine, haha."
Carter: "Hey Brad, look over there on the sidewalk, it's a stupid reverse cracker!"
Brad: "Whats a reverse cracker?"
Carter: "The opposite of a cracker, silly!"
Brad: "So you mean a--"
Carter: "STUPID GOD DAMNED NIGGER!"
Brad: "Alright, I gotta go, see ya."
Brad: *Runs off offended as Brad is African*
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