Corn-cracker State

See also: Corn cracker State and Corncracker State

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the Corn-cracker State

  1. An unofficial nickname for Kentucky, a state of the United States.
    • 2000, Steven A. Channing, Encyclopedia of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 3:
      The five sobriquets by which Kentucky is designated are: the Blue Grass State, the Corn-cracker State, the Dark and Bloody Ground State, the Hemp State, and the Tobacco State.
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