Difference between Cracker and Redneck

What is the difference between Cracker and Redneck?

Cracker as a noun is a dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit. while Redneck as a noun is an uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor white person, typically used to describe residents (of either gender) of the rural us.

Cracker

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savory biscuit. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. A firecracker. A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). A Christmas cracker Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker A fine thing or person (crackerjack). A person who cracks, (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions to enable unrestricted use or for malicious purpose. An impoverished white person from the SE United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; or, (by extension) white people generally. One who illegally circumvents protections in security to gain unauthorized access.

Example sentence: Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection?

Redneck

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor white person, typically used to describe residents (of either gender) of the rural US.The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

Example sentence: The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

We hope you now know whether to use Cracker or Redneck in your sentence.

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