crisps

1. a wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack.

   cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps

2. a dessert of fruit baked with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour.

   rhubarb crisp

1. give (food) a crisp surface by placing it in an oven or under a grill.

   crisp the pitta in the oven

2. curl (something) into short, stiff, wavy folds or crinkles.

   there is a cooling breeze which crisps the broad clear river

Old English (referring to hair in the sense ‘curly’): from Latin crispus ‘curled’. Other senses may result from symbolic interpretation of the sound of the word.

plural noun

a wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack; a crisp.