cracker barrel

plural cracker barrels

1. A barrel for holding crackers.

   I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!”

   2012, Martha Bennett Stiles, Sailing to Freedom, page 13

   1 more example

   The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room).

   2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79

comparative more cracker barrel · superlative most cracker barrel

1. alternativeAlternative form of cracker-barrel.

   Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes.

   2008, Alan Lazzari, Heat Of The Fire

   2 more examples

   He was, according to Fortune, “the Mississippi Yankee, the clever bumpkin, the homespun, rail-splitting, cracker barrel simplifier of national issues.”

   2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America, page 86

   The bespectacled and bow-tied Harvelle Chilton, self-styled cracker barrel sage, grabbed the stool in the corner (Chickie would never have allowed anything as low-class as a real cracker barrel into the room).

   2012, Marc Kaplan, Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta, page 79