corn-cracker noun2 •(US, old-fashioned) An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine. — 1847 •(offensive, old-fashioned) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States. formscorn crackers · corn-crackers