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) A potato crisp.
   • 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!

Related terms

• fish and chips
• French fries
• fries

Translations

potato chip (UK)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薯條 (zh), 薯条 (zh) (shǔtiáo)

• Finnish: ranskalainen (fi), ranskalainen peruna, ranskanperuna
• French: chips (fr) f, croustille (fr) f (Canada)
• German: Kartoffelchip (de) m
• Greek: τηγανητή πατάτα n (tiganití patáta)

• Korean: 감자칩 (gamjachip)
• Macedonian: пржени компири m pl (prženi kompiri)
• Russian: карто́фельный чипс m (kartófelʹnyj čips), чипс (ru) m (čips), хрустя́щий карто́фель m (xrustjáščij kartófelʹ)
• Uyghur: بەرەڭگە ياپراقچىسى‎ (berengge yapraqchisi)
• Welsh: sglodyn (cy) m

potato crisp — see potato crisp