Synonyms for firecracker

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fahyuh r-krak-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfaɪərˌkræk ər

Définition of firecracker

noun fireworks

Example sentences :

Cap'n Jonadab set up straight and sputtered like a firecracker.
Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln

A boy without enthusiasm is like a firecracker without a fuse.
Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

I remember I thought it must be white and soft like the string of a firecracker.
Extract from : « Track's End » by Hayden Carruth

You look like some one had dropped a firecracker down your neck, or something.
Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour

She actually got a firecracker and set it off under that beast.
Extract from : « The Liberty Girl » by Rena I. Halsey

I said what was that, was that a firecracker, or someone said this.
Extract from : « Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

With the ridiculous noise of a firecracker a pistol went off.
Extract from : « The Monster » by Edgar Saltus

He withdrew the firecracker slide and turned out the stereopticon.
Extract from : « The Heroes of the School » by Allen Chapman

I know a firecracker, or a regular Chinese smell when I get near one.
Extract from : « Whispering Wires » by Henry Leverage

He "sat on a firecracker," he said, which seems to have had an odd reaction.
Extract from : « Mavis of Green Hill » by Faith Baldwin

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