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firecracker [′fīr‚krak·ər] (engineering) A cylindrically shaped item containing an explosive and a fuse; used to simulate the noise of an explosive charge. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my nose and I knocked him sprawling. George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and eyelashes. The chastened melancholy induced by many months of fetching of pails of water, of scrubbing floors with a mop, and of jumping like a firecracker to avoid excited bees had been purged from him by the lights and the music and the wine. |
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