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- noun Plural form of
crisp . - noun UK A
snack made from thin slices of deep-friedpotato ;potato chips orpotato crisps (US)
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Examples
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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*.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The history of Anglo-American modernity can be mapped in crisps.
Britishness Acquires an Extra Crunch Sam Leith 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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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