potato chip

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

potato chip (plural potato chips)

1. (British, 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, Hong Kong) 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], spoken by Light Yagami (Brad Swaile), Ocean Productions, via Adult Swim:

     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／薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo)

• Finnish: ranskalainen (fi), ranskalainen peruna, ranskanperuna
• French: chips (fr) f, croustille (fr) f (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England)
• 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