crackers

adj. Chiefly British Slang
Insane; mad.

[Probably from CRACKER, breakdown.]

Plain, thin biscuits such as water biscuits, cream crackers, and wholemeal crackers, made from wheat flour, fat, and bicarbonate as a raising agent. A 40-g portion (5 biscuits) contains 3-6 g of fat; provides 1-2 g of dietary fibre and 160-280 mg of sodium; supplies 170 kcal (715 kJ).

adjective

Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  Synonyms: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skør, tosset

Nederlands (Dutch)
getikt

Français (French)
adj. - (GB) cinglé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - übergeschnappt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - καρυοθραύστης
adj. - (Βρετ., καθομ.) παλαβιάρης, μουρλός

Italiano (Italian)
toccato, pazzo, picchiato

idioms:

• drive crackers    far impazzire qualcuno

Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - biscoitos (m pl) salgados
adj. - doido

idioms:

• drive crackers    ficar doido

Русский (Russian)
сумасшедший, щипцы для орехов

idioms:

• drive crackers    сводить с ума

Español (Spanish)
adj. - chiflado, loco

Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - knäppare (för nötter)
adj. - knäpp, galen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
精神错乱的, 癫狂的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 精神錯亂的, 癲狂的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 열중한, 머리가 돈

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 気が狂った

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مجنون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מפצח-אגוזים, מטורף‬

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lunch crackers	coupons for crackers
christmas crackers	time crackers