- (also potato crisp)(both British English)(North American English chip, potato chip)[countable] a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Crisps are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods.
- a packet of smoky bacon crisps
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- potato
- plain
- cheese and onion
- …
- bag
- packet
- eat
- bag
- packet
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- (North American English) (British English crumble[uncountable, countable] a dessert (= a sweet dish) made from fruit that is covered with a rough mixture of flour, butter and sugar, cooked in the oven and usually served hot/ˈkrʌmbl//ˈkrʌmbl/)
- apple crisp
Word OriginOld English (referring to hair in the sense ‘curly’): from Latin crispus ‘curled’. Other senses may result from symbolic interpretation of the sound of the word.
Idioms
See crisp in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryburn (something) to a cinder/crisp
- to become completely burnt, especially because it has been cooked for too long
- By the time I got home, the cake was burnt to a cinder.
Extra Examples- The tower was struck by lightning and was burned to a cinder.
- I like my steak burnt to a cinder on the outside and blood red and juicy inside.
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