0 a firework that makes a loud noise when it explodes --
1 a small, usually paper or cardboard container filled with an explosive that makes a loud noise --
Since the ban was lifted, the firecracker barrage has been tremendous.
The entire firecracker must be very tightly packed in order for it to work best.
On away trips, he would set off firecrackers in public places and then pretend to be dead, inevitably drawing a crowd.
After the invention of gunpowder, gunpowder firecrackers had a shape that resembled bamboo and produced a similar sound, so the name exploding bamboo was retained.
Fengpao is the ceremony to start to burn thousands of soaring firecrackers hung on a five to twenty-five meters high wooden stand.
We asked the price of the entire lot of firecrackers.
Those firecrackers had tied the tongue of every person in the village and made them our friends.
He installed hassler devices that emitted high-pitched sounds whenever someone talked too loud, and even blew up an annoying public address speaker with firecrackers.
