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.
by JHandy July 28, 2019
Get the cracker turkeymug. A racist and heterophobic slur used by black and fag people. The opposite of the Idddubz paper of Nigger Faggot.
by GDZ September 18, 2022
Get the Cracker Breedermug. by average white boy May 16, 2023
Get the crackermug. by TheSickLab July 24, 2018
Get the Crackermug. When a man randomly grabs someone off the sidewalk, drags them into an alley and gives them a muddy Sanchez after tea bagging them then he proceeds to viciously rape them before setting them free
by Penule April 10, 2024
Get the Dirty crackermug. The word has many historical definitions, but if you’re on Urban Dictionnary, you’re probably looking for the word’s “slang” definition.
It’s an offensive term whose purpose is to insult white people.
The term itself is not an “insult”, like the word “nigger” which originally meant nothing more than “black” without any connotation, but its use and the context of its use has made it an insult over time, just like the word “cracker” we’re talking about.
The term is a source of irrelevant controversy among certain groups who wish to gatekeep the privilege of racial victimization and who resent the fact that ethnicities other than their own can be subjected to racial insults, and therefore resent the definition of the word “cracker”.
How is this word offensive? It is a socio-racial insult, an insult of class contempt that associates a certain social class with white ethnicity. It shows contempt for the “simple”, “non-fashion”, “unsophisticated” according to their pov.
If said by a white people, not so common, it will probably only have the class contempt meaning only, otherwise it’s social and racial slur.
It’s an offensive term whose purpose is to insult white people.
The term itself is not an “insult”, like the word “nigger” which originally meant nothing more than “black” without any connotation, but its use and the context of its use has made it an insult over time, just like the word “cracker” we’re talking about.
The term is a source of irrelevant controversy among certain groups who wish to gatekeep the privilege of racial victimization and who resent the fact that ethnicities other than their own can be subjected to racial insults, and therefore resent the definition of the word “cracker”.
How is this word offensive? It is a socio-racial insult, an insult of class contempt that associates a certain social class with white ethnicity. It shows contempt for the “simple”, “non-fashion”, “unsophisticated” according to their pov.
If said by a white people, not so common, it will probably only have the class contempt meaning only, otherwise it’s social and racial slur.
- What’s a labubu?
*Spits matcha*
- What did you just asked? Hey why don’t you go back where you come from cracker and leave us having a very thoughtful discussion about “How many Gumball character voice actors uses xyr/xer pronouns and how many seconds do their character appear on the screen in the last season”.
*Spits matcha*
- What did you just asked? Hey why don’t you go back where you come from cracker and leave us having a very thoughtful discussion about “How many Gumball character voice actors uses xyr/xer pronouns and how many seconds do their character appear on the screen in the last season”.
by cptnsmz August 28, 2025
Get the Crackermug. The Alabaman Mud Cracker is when you or your partner proceeds to shit on a cracker and feed it to you or him/her.
by Boss de la Boss March 4, 2018
Get the Alabaman Mud Crackermug.