crispadjective
uk/krɪsp/us/krɪsp/mainly approvingcrisp adjective (HARD)
hard enough to be broken easily
used to describe cooked foods, such as pastry and biscuits, that are well cooked so that they are just dry and hard enough
Crisp fruit or vegetables are fresh and firm:
C2 Crisp paper or cloth is stiff and smooth:
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Hard and firm
- (as) stiff/straight as a ramrod idiom
- adamantine
- cast iron
- crispy
- crunchy
- fossilized
- hard
- harden
- horny
- ossification
- ossify
- petrified
- ramrod
- solid
- stiff
- stiffly
- stiffness
- temper
- tense
- unyielding
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crisp adjective (CLEAR)
A crisp sound or image is very clear:
A crisp way of speaking, writing, or behaving is quick, confident, and effective:
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Apparent and obvious
- apparent
- be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
- be (right) under your nose idiom
- be etched somewhere idiom
- be writ large idiom
- leap out at sb
- linear
- loud
- loud and clear idiom
- manifest
- manifestly
- marked
- nose
- publicly
- recognizable
- self-evident
- shine
- shine out
- shine through
- stark
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crisp adjective (COLD)
C2 Crisp weather is cold, dry, and bright:
Crisp air is cold, dry, and fresh:
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Cool
- bracing
- cool
- cool (sb/sth) down/off
- coolness
- fresh
- refresh
- refreshing
- temperate
crispnoun
uk/krɪsp/us/krɪsp/crisp noun (POTATO)
A2 [ C usually plural ] UK US chip, potato chip a very thin, often round piece of fried potato, sometimes with a flavour added, sold especially in plastic bags:
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- If you gorge yourself on crisps like that, you won't eat your dinner.
- Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
- I bought some crisps and nuts and other nibbles.
- This packet of crisps costs 25p.
- If you eat three good meals a day, you're less likely to snack on biscuits and crisps.
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Forms of potatoes as food
- aloo
- alu
- baked potato
- bubble and squeak
- chip
- croquette
- finger chip
- French fry
- fries
- hash browns
- jacket potato
- mash
- mashed potatoes
- potato chip
- potato salad
- rösti
- shoestring potatoes
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crisp noun (SWEET FOOD)
[ C ] US UK crumble a sweet dish made from fruit covered in a mixture of flour, butter, and sugar rubbed together into small pieces, baked, and eaten hot:
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Puddings, desserts & ices
- baked Alaska
- baklava
- banana split
- banoffee pie
- blancmange
- Eton mess
- flan
- fool
- fruit salad
- granita
- peach Melba
- plum pudding
- Popsicle
- pudding
- rice pudding
- syllabub
- tapioca
- tiramisù
- trifle
- water ice
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