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cracker-barrel
[ krak-er-bar-uhl ]
adjective
- of or suggesting the simple rustic informality and directness thought to be characteristic of life in and around a country store:
homespun, cracker-barrel philosophy.
cracker-barrel
adjective
- rural; rustic; homespun
a cracker-barrel philosopher
Word History and Origins
Origin of cracker-barrel1
Example Sentences
Terry was headed to a Cracker Barrel to “think” when a car cut her off.
He went through it like an old goat through a cracker barrel, but he didn't find anything—see?
Young Bill was under discussion by the cracker barrel committee in Oliver Baldwin's grocery.
“Well, I reckon,” answered Billy, reaching into a cracker-barrel and abstracting some odds and ends of hardtack.
Seeing Sam sitting with swinging legs upon the cracker barrel she spoke to her father and went out of the store.
The boy climbed again upon a cracker barrel and tried to look unconcerned and interested in the talk.
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