Crisps - English meaning

noun

A wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack.

Usage examples:

Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps

noun

A dessert of fruit baked with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour.

Usage examples:

Rhubarb crisp

verb

Give (food) a crisp surface by placing it in an oven or under a grill.

Usage examples:

Crisp the pitta in the oven

verb

Curl (something) into short, stiff, wavy folds or crinkles.

Usage examples:

There is a cooling breeze which crisps the broad clear river

noun

A wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack; a crisp.

adjective

(of a substance) firm, dry, and brittle.

Usage examples:

Crisp bacon

adjective

(of the weather) cool, fresh, and invigorating.

Usage examples:

A crisp autumn day

adjective

(of a way of speaking) briskly decisive and matter-of-fact, without hesitation or unnecessary detail.

Usage examples:

Her answer was crisp

adjective

(of food) hard enough to be broken easily instead of bent

Usage examples:

Crisp bacon, crisp rolls, i like to sleep on crisp cotton sheets., the teller handed me a crisp hun…