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Christmas cracker

Noun

Meaning

Christmas cracker (plural Christmas crackers)

(Britain, Canada, New Zealand) A table decoration, in the form of a large paper sweet wrapper, constructed around a cardboard tube typically containing a paper hat, silly joke and a small novelty or toy; a pair of people pull the ends of the cracker causing an embedded device to make a crack sound as the cracker breaks in two and the contents are released.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Some quiz facts are just excellent jokes, and if you take the Christmas cracker approach to answering them you’ll probably get there: What is the journal of the Magic Circle called? Source: Internet

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