potato chip

potato chip

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Noun

potato chip (plural potato chips)

1. (Britain, Australia) One of a batch of pieces of potato cut into elongated cubes and fried; a chip or chipped potato, usually larger than American french fries.
2. (Canada, US, Australia, Singapore, Philippines) A potato crisp, a thin slice of potato that has been fried.
   • 2007 December 8, “目線 [Glare]”, in デスノート [Death Note], Adult Swim, Ocean Productions, spoken by Light Yagami (Brad Swaile):

     I'll take a potato chip, and eat it!

Synonyms

• Saratoga chip

Derived terms

• potato chip of the sea

Related terms

• fish and chips
• French fries
• fries

Translations

a piece of potato similar to a french fry, a British potato chip

Chinese: Mandarin: 薯條 (zh), 薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo) Finnish: ranskalainen (fi), ranskalainen peruna, ranskanperuna French: chips (fr) f, croustille (fr) f (Canada) Greek: τηγανητή πατάτα f (tiganití patáta) Macedonian: пржени компири m pl (prženi kompiri) Russian: хрустя́щий карто́фель m (xrustjáščij kartófelʹ) Welsh: sglodyn (cy) m

potato crisp — see potato crisp