Etymology Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine. Noun saltine (plural saltines) (Canada, US) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person"). Translations salty cracker Finnish: voileipäkeksi German: Cracker (de) m Serbo-Croatian: kreker (sh) Spanish: galleta de soda f, galleta de agua f Swedish: salt kex n Anagrams tenails, Stelian, nailest, elastin, stealin', salient, tselina, alestin, Latines, staniel, entails, nail set, nailset