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cracker-barrel

adj

Etymology

Attributive form of cracker barrel. From the image of a group of locals sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store talking together.

Definitions

  1. Folksy

    Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.

    • Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural.

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