"crisps" in the noun sense

1. chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip

a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

"crisps" in the verb sense

1. wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp

make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in `crisp' is archaic

"The dress got wrinkled"

"crease the paper like this to make a crane"

2. crispen, toast, crisp

make brown and crisp by heating

"toast bread"

"crisp potatoes"

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