Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thin crisp cracker sprinkled with coarse salt.

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  • noun US A thin, crisp, salted, white-colored cracker, a soda cracker; the most common of all US crackers; (UK) soda biscuit.

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  • noun a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking

Etymologies

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Originally a US brand name, presumably salt +‎ -ine.

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  • saline, saltine, saltines, saltiness

    March 29, 2009