Meanings
plural crackerasses
- derogatoryethnicoffensiveslurA contemptible white person.
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."
2 more examples
New Orleans holds us on downs, and Malley goes in to punt and that little crackerass No. 28 slices through and blocks it.
1974, Jack Olsen, Alphabet Jackson: a novel, linkIf that crackerass wants to get in touch, tell him I can't be located.
1989, Windsor Chorlton, Rites of sacrifice, link
comparative more crackerass · superlative most crackerass
- derogatoryRelating to the negative attributes of a white person.
Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me.
2002, Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/underdog, page 272 more examples
Booth 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 72It 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.
2012, Les Standiford, Bone Key, page 65
Origin
From cracker + -ass. Likely from Georgia Cracker.
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