crumb-cruncher

crumb-cruncher

slang A young child. I babysat four crumb-crunchers today, and boy, did they tire me out!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crumb-cruncher

and crumb-crusher
n. a child. How many crumb-crunchers do you have at home.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • crumb-crusher
  • crusher
  • cruncher
  • crunchers
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • pillow-biter
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • (something) blows
  • out of one's
References in periodicals archive
Interest in all sorts of hunting and shooting was picking up steam, and returning GIs who were buying a new house and an assembly-line car and had a couple of crumb-crunchers to feed needed a rifle that wouldn't break the bank.