crackerass

See also: cracker-ass

English

Etymology

From cracker +‎ -ass. Likely from Georgia Cracker.

Noun

crackerass (plural crackerasses)

1. (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A contemptible white person.
   • 1974, Jack Olsen, Alphabet Jackson: a novel, link:

     New Orleans holds us on downs, and Malley goes in to punt and that little crackerass No. 28 slices through and blocks it.

   • 1989, Windsor Chorlton, Rites of sacrifice, link:

     If that crackerass wants to get in touch, tell him I can't be located.

   • 1989, Analog science fiction/science fact: Volume 109, Issues 10-13, link

     Those crackerass bureaucrats in the Pentagon don't care how good it works, they just want to go on using them crappy old machines they built their own selves."

Adjective

crackerass (comparative more crackerass, superlative most crackerass)

1. (derogatory) Relating to the negative attributes of a white person.
   • 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/underdog‎, page 27:

     Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me.

   • 2006, Will Kaufman, The Civil War in American culture‎, page 72:

     Booth Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me.

   • 2012, Les Standiford, Bone Key‎, page 65:

     It might have been ruled an accident, except for the fact that it had happened in a crackerass town in rural Georgia, and that Russell had thrown off his gloves at one point and used his bare fists to continue the process.

Anagrams

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