Cracker Jack

See also: crackerjack and cracker-jack

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Cracker Jack

A boxed snack consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, well known for including surprise toys of nominal value.
- 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game:
  Take me out to the ball game / Take me out with the crowd / Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack / I don't care if I never get back.

Cracker Jack (countable and uncountable, plural Cracker Jacks)

(countable) One kernel of the Cracker Jack snack.
A Cracker Jack fell to the theater floor.
(uncountable) A quantity of the snack. Usually Cracker Jacks.
He stuffed himself with Cracker Jack.
- 1961, Breakfast at Tiffany’s:
  Tiffany's salesman: This, I take it, was not purchased at Tiffany’s?
  Paul Varjak: No, actually it was purchased concurrent with, uh, well, actually, came inside of… well, a box of Cracker Jack.