cracker barrel

Definitions

1. 1

   A barrel for holding crackers.

   • 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).
   • I set Allie on a cracker barrel beside the counter and told her, “Stay put!”
2. 2

   Alternative form of cracker-barrel.

   • He was, according to Fortune, “the Mississippi Yankee, the clever bumpkin, the homespun, rail-splitting, cracker barrel simplifier of national issues.”
   • Now forced elsewhere, the cracker barrel crowd would quietly meet at night in private homes.
   • 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).

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