saltinen.
/sɒlˈtiːn/, /sɔːlˈtiːn/, /ˈsɒltiːn/, /ˈsɔːltiːn/, U.S. /sɔlˈtin/, /sɑlˈtin/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
A salted cracker or thin crisp biscuit.
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1907 Grocery World 4 Nov. 40/2 Crackers and cakes... Orange Cookies... Quaker City Mixed... Salted Strips... Saltines [etc.].
1914 H. C. Sherman Food Products viii. 287 Crackers,..Pretzels... Saltines... Soda crackers (etc.).
1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! ii. 63 Mrs. Miller (as Norah comes back with a dish of saltines—begins ladling soup into the stack of plates before her).
c1938 Fortnum & Mason Price List 19/1 Southern American Biscuits..Saltines..2/3.
1958 E. S. Warner Silk-cotton Tree xvii. 177 The Head was passing around a box of soggy-looking saltines.
1969 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder to Go xiv. 134 ‘Would anybody..like some crackers?’.. He delayed his own departure until the appearance of a dish of saltines.
1975 New Yorker 14 Apr. 104/3 I sought him out in his office at Hi Corbett Field (where he was lunching on two Cokes and some saltines crumbled into a cup of soup).
1980 R. L. Duncan Brimstone v. 89 Have my lunch brought in. Milk and saltines.
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