crackerbarrel

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1. alternativeAlternative form of cracker-barrel.

   The crackerbarrel figure was thus a symbol of American individualism.

   1982, Logan Esarey, Indiana Magazine of History, page 28

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   Before long the slant and lunge of his big body and his restless, powerful movements made his expensive clothes stretch and crumple until they molded themselves on him and began to resemble the Levi's he might once have worn on the range or the range; by the same process, in the surge and pound of his speeches, the elegant and disciplined vocabulary he had so laboriously acquired speeded up to a wild crackerbarrel whine or slowed down to a twanging, gunsmoke drawl.

   1966, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California, page 62

   Keep in mind, such thoughts are blasphemy in the world of crackerbarrel populism.

   2013, Wes D. Gehring, Will Cuppy, American Satirist: A Biography, page 60