Usually means: Small explosive device for celebrations.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word firecracker:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. firecracker: Merriam-Webster
  2. firecracker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. firecracker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. firecracker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. firecracker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Firecracker, firecracker: Wordnik
  7. firecracker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. firecracker: Wiktionary
  9. firecracker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. firecracker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. firecracker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. firecracker: Dictionary.com
  13. firecracker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Firecracker (Lisa Loeb album), Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys), Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys album), Firecracker (film), Firecracker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Firecracker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. firecracker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. firecracker: Rhymezone
  18. Firecracker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. firecracker: FreeDictionary.org
  20. firecracker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. firecracker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. firecracker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. firecracker: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Firecracker (offensive), Firecracker (offensive): Racial Slur Database

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▸ noun:  A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.
▸ noun:  (slang, informal) A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
▸ noun:  (slang, informal) An individual who is quick-tempered, rambunctious, or unpredictable.

Similar:
banger, cracker, cannon cracker, squib, sparkler, petard, ladyfinger, gunpowder, cap gun, flashpot, more...

Opposite:
dud, fizzle, flop, failure

Types:
cherry bomb, M-80, M-100, M-1000, M-5000, M-10000, M-100000, more...

Phrases:
firecracker flower, Miss Firecracker, firecracker sound, defective firecracker, kind of firecracker, more...

Adjectives:
giant, little, small, large, biggest, wet, lighted, real, chinese, first, huge



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Similar:
banger, cracker, cannon cracker, squib, sparkler, petard, ladyfinger, gunpowder, cap gun, flashpot, more...

Opposite:
dud, fizzle, flop, failure

Types:
cherry bomb, M-80, M-100, M-1000, M-5000, M-10000, M-100000, more...

Phrases:
firecracker flower, Miss Firecracker, firecracker sound, defective firecracker, kind of firecracker, firecracker part, firecracker report, failed firecracker, more...

Adjectives:
giant, little, small, large, biggest, wet, lighted, real, chinese, first, huge



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