saltine

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US/sɔlˈtin/US/sɑlˈtin/

noun

A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

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Meanings

nounsaltine (plural saltines)

plural saltines

  1. CanadaUSA thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
  2. CanadaUSethnicslurA euphemism for cracker ("white person").

Origin

Genericized trademark. Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

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Translations

Finnish voileipäkeksi
  • voileipäkeksisalty cracker
French craquelin, biscuit soda
  • craquelinsalty cracker
  • biscuit sodasalty cracker
German Cracker
  • Crackersalty cracker
Italian cracker
  • crackersalty cracker
Spanish galleta de soda, galleta de agua
  • galleta de sodasalty cracker
  • galleta de aguasalty cracker
  • saltinasalty cracker
Swedish salt kex
  • salt kexsalty cracker

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

salientelastinStelianalestintselinanailsetstaniel
Cite this entry
APA

saltine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saltine

MLA

“saltine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saltine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “saltine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saltine.

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