firecracker

IPA: fˈaɪɝkrækɝ

A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.
A peanut butter cracker baked with marijuana, similar in concept to an Alice B. Toklas brownie.
A person or thing that is exciting and/or unpredictable.

Examples of "firecracker" in Sentences

The telos of a fuse on a firecracker is a nice explosion.
The manufacturer told the police that the firecracker was his company's product and that he regularly conducted firework displays.
But a quick Google search revealed that the phrase refers to a firecracker that has failed to ignite, perhaps because it was left out in the rain.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unhurt on Wednesday after an explosive device, officially described as a firecracker, went off near his motorcade.
Brent Napoleon, 23, strode in slow motion through the crowd in the living room, a sizzling dish of what he called firecracker salmon lofted like the Olympic torch.
She Sarah Burton is a trailblazer and a firecracker, which is one of the reasons we decided that the character should have red hair and wear wonderful primary colours.