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n. 1 (context British English) potato cut into elongated cubes and fried, a chip or chipped potato, usually larger than the ''US'' French fried potato. 2 (context US English) potato cut slices and fried, similar to a ''UK'' potato crisp.
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A potato chip ( American English) or crisp ( British English) is a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, baked, kettle-cooked, or popped until crunchy. Potato chips are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or appetizer. The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including herbs, spices, cheeses, and artificial additives.
"Crisps", however, may also refer to many different types of savory snack products sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland, some made from potato, but some made from corn, tapioca, or other cereals, and root vegetables, just as other varieties of chips are consumed in the United States.
Potato chips are a predominant part of the snack food market in Western countries. The global potato chip market generated total revenues of US$16.49 billion in 2005. This accounted for 35.5% of the total savory snacks market in that year ($46.1 billion).
Usage examples of "potato chip".
Today I was having a peanut butter and olive and potato chip sandwich for dinner.
The wastebasket held only a crumpled potato chip bag, the copies of the insurance paperwork from the hospital, an empty bourbon bottle, and the stub of a train ticket, His toothbrush was in sorry shape, as was his encrusted razor.
Made a pornographic video while [14] wearing a mask cut from a potato chip bag.
Upper-class Filipino children brandish cylindrical potato chip canisters like tribal chieftains carrying ceremonial maces.
Curtis screams, and even when he realizes that the snack in her hand isn't a human ear, after all, but merely a large potato chip, he isn't able to stop screaming.
What looked like a potato chip was made without fat, salt, or potato.