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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chili
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
▪ Or go to Marshalls for some with red hot chili pepper prints for $ 12. 99.
▪ Today, accessories are as hot as chili salsa served at a tango contest.
▪ Jalapefio: The most widely available hot chili, jalapenos can be either green or red.
▪ Remove from heat and add the green onion and hot chili oil.
red
▪ Cayenne: A fiery, intense, red chili that is known as cayenne pepper when dried and ground.
▪ Or go to Marshalls for some with red hot chili pepper prints for $ 12. 99.
■ NOUN
pepper
▪ Note: Ancho is a dried poblano chili pepper.
▪ Or go to Marshalls for some with red hot chili pepper prints for $ 12. 99.
▪ Stir in the cheese and chili peppers.
▪ It's a tomato sauce, but it's hot, for sure, by dint of those ubiquitous chili peppers.
▪ Add bay leaves, chili peppers, coriander seed, juniper berries, cinnamon stick, and thyme.
▪ The hot kind is made of beef and pork with chili peppers.
powder
▪ Add chili powder, cumin, and cayenne and black peppers, and stir over low heat for 3 minutes.
▪ Combine cumin, chili powder, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in large bowl.
▪ Stir in undrained diced tomatoes, rice, chili powder and Tabasco sauce.
sauce
▪ In a medium microwave-safe bowl, add the tangerine juice, wine, cornstarch mixture, honey and chili sauce.
▪ Put the browned chicken back into the skillet and add the orange juice, chicken stock and chili sauce.
▪ Add chili sauce and lime juice and continue simmering, stirring frequently, until sauce thickens, 8 to 10 minutes.
▪ Only the gummy ancho chili sauce marred the beauty of the dish.
■ VERB
make
▪ A friend from Alabama never made chili without okra, and her chili was legendary.
▪ It takes three hours to make competition chili and the time goes by very quickly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ancho: A richly flavored, mild chili known as ancho whether fresh or dried.
▪ Combine cumin, chili powder, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in large bowl.
▪ Or go to Marshalls for some with red hot chili pepper prints for $ 12. 99.
▪ That is why I recommend chili.
▪ There is a reason for the deli's popularity, and it isn't the chili fries.
▪ They can also serve quite nicely with a bowl of chili or a pizza.
▪ Today, accessories are as hot as chili salsa served at a tango contest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chili

Chili \Chil"i\, n. [Sp. chili, chile.] A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum [Written also chilli and chile.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chili

also chilli, 1660s, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) chilli, native name for the peppers. Not named for the South American country. As short for chile con carne and similar dishes, attested by 1846.

Wiktionary
chili

n. 1 The pungent/spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used especially to add heat, or as a flavouring in cooking; associated with Mexican, Tex-Mex(,) and Indian cuisine. 2 A dish made with this fruit and other ingredients, such as beans and beef; chili con carne. 3 (context uncountable English) powder chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

WordNet
chili
  1. n. ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans [syn: chili con carne]

  2. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]

Wikipedia
Chili

Chili or chilli may refer to:

Usage examples of "chili".

He unrolled a map of Chili and the Argentine provinces as he spoke, and spread it out on the table.

Let us make a stride across the narrow strip of Chili, and over the Cordilleras of the Andes, and get into the heart of the Pampas.

It was one of those cataclysms frequent in Chili, and in this very region where Copiapo had been twice destroyed, and Santiago four times laid in ruins in fourteen years.

He had taken thirty days to cross Chili, the Cordilleras, the Pampas, and the Argentine plains, giving the DUNCAN ample time to double Cape Horn, and arrive on the opposite side.

Add the shredded red chilis, the fresh ginger shreds, the lime peel, the garlic cloves, and the onions, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes until the onions are translucent, and just starting to brown.

There was the smell of cooking chili on the still air, and that stirred a recollection of his childhood, when old Cocinero kept a quantity of the biting peppers continually cooking on his stove and filling the yard with their fragrance.

Roses, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pigface, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam.

Herbie never landed on the kid for this because he was afraid of the parents, even though several times in the beginning, after the guitar- lending incident, Nancy had come over with things for him to eat--a bowl of chili, another of posole, a bag of hot sopaipillas.

Using the peanuts, tomatoes, and chilis of the New World and their own native palm oil, coconut, and dried shrimp, they concocted rich sauces for fish and poultry.

Chinese restaurants selling Martian chicken, heavy on the red chili, lightly sprinkled with superoxide dust, kind of dry.

He devoured kung-pao chicken and chili shrimp, with a Tsingtao beer to put out the fire from the peppers.

We saw two torpedo boats, and some Whitehead torpedoes, the boats were built in Great Britain for Chili, and purchased from the Chilians two years ago.

Carmelita bustled about the room, pouring Wine, passing platters of steaming tortillas and trays heaped with spicy meats and chilis, along with slabs of roast beef.

She disappeared with the gangers for an hour or so, then came back grinning with self-satisfaction and bearing an armload of bags from the local Voodoo Chili franchise.

Diamond popped a handful of chopped chili leppers into her mouth and reached for another until Carmelita rapped her hand with a wooden spoon.