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  • noun Plural form of crisp.
  • noun UK A snack made from thin slices of deep-fried potato; potato chips or potato crisps (US)

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Examples

  • Tayto, well-known for its fantastic crisps, is offering you the chance to win a year's supply of world famous Tayto Cheese & Onion crisps*.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • PepsiCo, the parent company of Walkers crisps, is Britain's biggest crisp maker, buying more than 350,000 tonnes of potatoes a year

    Pepsi takes fight with Coca-Cola into potato fields John Vidal 2010

  • Belly pork should be roasted over a ban marie at a very high heat fat side up. .so the fat and skin crisps/crinkles and the steam from the banmarie keeps the meat moist.

    Midtown Links (Mid-week Edition) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

  • It’s not easy for them either, especially keeping you in crisps and coke on the measly £200 you deign to give to them each month.

    …moving back in with your parents at my age. « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • Bloomberg News Pringles—called 'crisps' rather than chips—was among early brands P&G took to foreign markets, but the company has backed away from foods.

    Diamond Buys P&G's Pringles Ellen Byron 2011

  • The history of Anglo-American modernity can be mapped in crisps.

    Britishness Acquires an Extra Crunch Sam Leith 2010

  • At the heart of the book is a masterly comic set piece involving the man sitting across from him on a train that I won't describe in detail because it has a surprise and suspense that readers should arrive at on their own; but I will say that it centers on a packet of what the English call crisps, and that it opens with this impeccably unwholesome ode to what's bad for us:

    Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

  • At the heart of the book is a masterly comic set piece involving the man sitting across from him on a train that I won't describe in detail because it has a surprise and suspense that readers should arrive at on their own; but I will say that it centers on a packet of what the English call crisps, and that it opens with this impeccably unwholesome ode to what's bad for us:

    Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

  • Necole Bitchie.com Here's a picture of a baby hamster eating some crisps, that is all...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Huffington Post UK 2012

  • At the heart of the book is a masterly comic set piece involving the man sitting across from him on a train that I won't describe in detail because it has a surprise and suspense that readers should arrive at on their own; but I will say that it centers on a packet of what the English call crisps, and that it opens with this impeccably unwholesome ode to what's bad for us:

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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