Noun
- 1. chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip, snack food
- usage: a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
Verb
- 1. wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp, fold, fold up, turn up
- usage: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
- 2. crispen, toast, crisp, heat, heat up
- usage: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"
Adjective
- 1. crisp, sharp, distinct (vs. indistinct)
- usage: (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"
- 2. crisp, crispy, tender (vs. tough)
- usage: tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips"
- 3. crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, cold (vs. hot)
- usage: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"
- 4. crisp, fresh (vs. stale)
- usage: pleasingly firm and fresh; "crisp lettuce"
- 5. crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy, curly (vs. straight)
- usage: (of hair) in small tight curls
- 6. crisp, curt, laconic, terse, concise (vs. prolix)
- usage: brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"
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