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Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt +‎ -ine.

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saltine (plural saltines)

  1. (Canada, US) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
  2. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

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