Meaning & use
soda cracker
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Meaning
nouncountableAmerican
A thin, crisp, lightly salted square biscuit made with flour and baking soda, often eaten with soup or when feeling unwell.
Grammar: Usually plural in speech: a few soda crackers.
Patterns
- soda crackers with soup
- a sleeve of soda crackers
She ate a few soda crackers to settle her stomach.
He crumbled soda crackers into his tomato soup.
A sleeve of soda crackers sat on the kitchen shelf.
Word forms
| plural | soda crackers |
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Common combinations
- box of soda crackers
- We keep a box of soda crackers for sick days.
- salted soda crackers
- Salted soda crackers go well with cheese.
- crush soda crackers
- Crush soda crackers to coat the fish.
- soda crackers and soup
- Soda crackers and soup was all he could eat.
- plain soda crackers
- Plain soda crackers are gentle on the stomach.
Synonyms and how they differ
- saltine
- Saltine is a brand-like American term for the same square cracker and is a very close match.
- cream cracker
- A cream cracker is the British rectangular cracker, which is similar but not identical.
- cracker
- Cracker is a broad word for any dry crisp biscuit, while soda cracker names one specific kind.
- water biscuit
- A water biscuit is a thin plain British cracker, usually without the salty topping.
Word family
Commonly confused: soda cracker or soda?
soda cracker vs soda
Soda alone usually means a fizzy drink in American English, which has nothing to do with the cracker.
Practice
Someone with an upset stomach is often advised to eat plain ____.
Choose one answer.
Soda crackers are bland and dry, which is why they are recommended for an upset stomach. The other foods are rich or greasy.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “soda cracker”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.