Meanings
nounpotato crisp (plural potato crisps)
plural potato crisps
- IrelandUKin pluralA thin slice of potato that has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and which is eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.
1949 August 22 (first performance), T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, The Cocktail Party: A Comedy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French […], published 1950, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11Synonyms: crisp, chip, potato chip
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA thin slice of potato that has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and which is eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
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Translations
Arabic شِبْس, تْشِبْس
- شِبْس (šibs)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- تْشِبْس (tšibs)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- تْشِيبْس (tšībs)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- رَقَائِق اَلْبَطَاطِس (raqāʔiq al-baṭāṭis)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Bulgarian чипс, картофен чипс
- чипс (čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- картофен чипс (kartofen čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Catalan patata xip
- patata xipthin deep-fried slice of potato
Chinese Cantonese 薯片
- 薯片thin deep-fried slice of potato
Chinese Mandarin 薯片, 馬鈴薯片 /马铃薯片
- 薯片 (shǔpiàn)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- 馬鈴薯片 /马铃薯片 (mǎlíngshǔpiàn)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- 土豆片 (tǔdòupiàn)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- 洋芋片 (yángyùpiàn)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Danish chips, kartoffelchips
- chipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
- kartoffelchipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
- franske kartoflerthin deep-fried slice of potato
Esperanto terpomfloko, ĉipso
- terpomflokothin deep-fried slice of potato
- ĉipsothin deep-fried slice of potato
Estonian kartulikrõps, krõps
- kartulikrõpsthin deep-fried slice of potato
- krõpsthin deep-fried slice of potato
Finnish perunalastu, sipsi
- perunalastuthin deep-fried slice of potato
- sipsithin deep-fried slice of potato
French chips de pomme de terre
- chips de pomme de terrethin deep-fried slice of potato
German Chip, Kartoffelchip
- Chipthin deep-fried slice of potato
- Kartoffelchipthin deep-fried slice of potato
Greek πατατάκι
- πατατάκι (patatáki)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Hungarian csipsz, burgonyaszirom
- csipszthin deep-fried slice of potato
- burgonyasziromthin deep-fried slice of potato
- krumplisziromthin deep-fried slice of potato
Icelandic kartöfluflaga
- kartöfluflagathin deep-fried slice of potato
Indonesian keripik kentang
- keripik kentangthin deep-fried slice of potato
Irish brioscán prátaí, criospa
- brioscán prátaíthin deep-fried slice of potato
- criospathin deep-fried slice of potato
Italian patatina, patatina fritta
- patatinathin deep-fried slice of potato
- patatina frittathin deep-fried slice of potato
Japanese ポテトチップ
- ポテトチップ (poteto chippu)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Korean 감자칩
- 감자칩 (gamjachip)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Lithuanian bulvių traškutis
- bulvių traškutisthin deep-fried slice of potato
Malay kerepek kentang
- kerepek kentangthin deep-fried slice of potato
Persian چیپس
- چیپس (čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Polish chips
- chipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
Portuguese batata frita
- batata fritathin deep-fried slice of potato
Romanian chips
- chipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
Russian карто́фельный чипс, чипс
- карто́фельный чипс (kartófelʹnyj čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- чипс (čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Scottish Gaelic sliseag
- sliseagthin deep-fried slice of potato
Spanish patata frita, papita
- patata fritathin deep-fried slice of potato
- papitathin deep-fried slice of potato
- patatillathin deep-fried slice of potato
- patata chipthin deep-fried slice of potato
- chip pataterathin deep-fried slice of potato
- chipthin deep-fried slice of potato
- papa al hilothin deep-fried slice of potato
- papa hilothin deep-fried slice of potato
- papa chipthin deep-fried slice of potato
Swahili kaukau
- kaukauthin deep-fried slice of potato
Swedish potatischips
- potatischipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
Thai มันฝรั่งทอด
- มันฝรั่งทอด (man-fà-ràng-tɔ̂ɔt)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Turkish patates cipsi, cips
- patates cipsithin deep-fried slice of potato
- cipsthin deep-fried slice of potato
Ukrainian чипс, чіпс
- чипс (čyps)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- чіпс (čips)thin deep-fried slice of potato
Vietnamese khoai tây lát mỏng
- khoai tây lát mỏngthin deep-fried slice of potato
Welsh creisionen, creisionen datws
- creisionenthin deep-fried slice of potato
- creisionen datwsthin deep-fried slice of potato
- crisbenthin deep-fried slice of potato
Yiddish קאַרטאָפֿל־טשיפּל, טשיפּל
- קאַרטאָפֿל־טשיפּל (kartofl-tshipl)thin deep-fried slice of potato
- טשיפּל (tshipl)thin deep-fried slice of potato
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