"crisp" in the noun sense

1. chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip

a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

"crisp" 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"

"crisp" in the adjective sense

1. crisp, sharp

of something seen or heard) clearly defined

"a sharp photographic image"

"the sharp crack of a twig"

"the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"

2. crisp, crispy

tender and brittle

"crisp potato chips"

3. crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy

pleasantly cold and invigorating

"crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"

"a nipping wind"

"a nippy fall day"

"snappy weather"

4. crisp

pleasingly firm and fresh

"crisp lettuce"

5. crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy

of hair) in small tight curls

6. crisp, curt, laconic, terse

brief and to the point effectively cut short `yes'"

"a crisp retort"

"a response so curt as to be almost rude"

"the laconic reply

"short and terse and easy to understand"

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