Dictionaries:
crackers:
1. Casual term for the teeth . 2. In the 1970s, gas-filled, breakable ampoules of amyl-nitrite .
See also: amyl-nitrite .
See Also: CBC, flat tire, nutcrackers, sweep off one's feet, western patio
Quotes Containing crackers:
Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) proposing marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) in Animal Crackers (1930): - Spaulding: ''Well, what do you say, girls? Are we all going to get married?'' - Rittenhouse: ''All of us?'' - Spaulding: ''All of us!'' - Rittenhouse: ''Yes, but that''s bigamy!'' - Spaulding: ''Yes, and it''s big-of-me too. It''s big of all of us. Let''s be big for a change. I''m sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother?''
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