saltine · noun — A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
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saltine is pronounced /sɔlˈtin/.
Etymology
Genericized trademark. Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
noun
- A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
- A euphemism for cracker ("white person").
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