See also: Nutcracker

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Nutcracker
 
Clark's nutcracker, a species of genus Nucifraga
 
A nutcracker-style bottled cocktail

Etymology edit

nut +‎ cracker

Noun edit

nutcracker (plural nutcrackers)

  1. An implement for cracking nuts.
  2. (ornithology) Either of two birds of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
  3. (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
    • 2019 August 17, Aaron Randle, “Banned on the Beach? It’s Still Nutcracker Summer”, in New York Times[1]:
      The colorful bottles have popped up every summer in black and Hispanic communities — from the bodegas of Washington Heights to the stoops of Fort Greene — since the early 1990s. On beach boardwalks, at neighborhood basketball courts and block parties, New Yorkers are drinking nutcrackers, boozy homespun cocktails made from a blend of alcohol and fruit juices.
  4. (informal) Something difficult to figure out; a puzzle
    • 1978, The Laboregister, volume 2, Michigan Department of Labor, page 177:
      I hadn't been to school for a while so the math was a real nutcracker

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