Christmas cracker

English

Christmas crackers.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

Christmas cracker (plural Christmas crackers)

1. (British, Canada, New Zealand) A table decoration, in the form of a large paper sweet wrapper, constructed around a cardboard tube typically containing a paper hat, silly joke and a small novelty or toy; a pair of people pull the ends of the cracker causing an embedded device to make a crack sound as the cracker breaks in two and the contents are released.

Translations

table decoration containing a toy

• German: Knallbonbon m or n
• Italian: petardo di Natale m, cosacco (it) m
• Swedish: smällkaramell c
• Welsh: cracer Nadolig m