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crisp English

Meaning crisp meaning

What does crisp mean?
Definitions in simple English

crisp Adjective

— If something is crisp, it breaks easily and makes a cracking or snapping sound when you break or bite it. Fry the bacon until it is brown and crisp. Add the butter and continue cooking another 5 minutes or longer to brown and crisp them even more. Nothing beats the taste of a crisp, juicy apple picked fresh from the tree. — If cloth or paper is crisp, it is clean or new and often stiff. The young man stood tall and straight in a crisp white shirt and dark pants. Fifteen minutes later Wendy crawled between clean crisp sheets, realized that she was very, very tired, and fell instantly asleep. — If the weather is crisp, it is cold and dry, often with a clear sky. — If food tastes crisp, it has a fresh acid flavour. — If a person is crisp, they are professional and quick, but not especially friendly. — If a picture is crisp, it is very clear.

crisp Noun

— ; Crisps are thin, deep-fried potatoes.

crisp Verb

— To make crisp. — To become crisp.

crisp

— adjective (= 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 — noun a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat — adjective tender and brittle crisp potato chips — adjective (= curt, laconic, terse) brief and to the point; effectively cut short a crisp retort a response so curt as to be almost rude the laconic reply; 'yes' short and terse and easy to understand — adjective (= frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy) pleasantly cold and invigorating crisp clear nights and frosty mornings a nipping wind a nippy fall day snappy weather — adjective pleasingly firm and fresh crisp lettuce — adjective (of hair) in small tight curls — verb (= toast) make brown and crisp by heating toast bread crisp potatoes — verb (= wrinkle, crease) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in The dress got wrinkled crease the paper like this to make a crane

Synonyms crisp synonyms

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crisp English » English

brittle crunchy crispy terse potato chip chip frizzy sharp nipping fragile curly curl crimp brisk nippy curt crinkle wrinkle stiff snappy laconic frosty frizzly frizz fresh frangible frail easily broken dry crispen clear bright breakable trenchant toast short scrunch up scrunch ruckle refreshing pungent precise nappy lively kinky keen frizzle friable firm crumbly

Topics crisp topics

What do people use crisp to talk about?
States Quality Hot

Cold
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Daily life Food

Types of food
States Quality Made of, material

Stiff, flexible
Daily life Food

Food preparation

Conjugation crisp conjugation

How do you conjugate crisp?

crisp · verb

Examples crisp examples

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Lovely crisp skin!
The fire will burn them to a crisp.
There she was in a nice, clean, crisp, lacy blouse.
I took crisp lettuce, romaine and crinkly endive from my own garden for my husband's favorite salad.
The chicken will be burned to a crisp.
He's as crisp as bacon.
On a slab in the morgue, burned to a crisp.
Crisp as a lettuce, aren't you?
I got hot muffins crisp bacon, hotcakes, steak, fryer potatoes fresh-ground coffee.
Try the head - crisp as a lettuce!
If that petrol goes up. - We'll get burnt to a crisp. - Like Yorkshire pud.
I like this crisp, new attitude of yours.
There should be enough juice in that line to burn the thing to a crisp.
Dinner will be burnt to a crisp.
We've made it this far. Last thing we want is to end up burned to a crisp.
You're still crisp and as fresh as a daisy.
Yes poor Davis he was burnt to a crisp.
Burnt to a crisp.
But if he was burnt to a crisp how'd you know that it was Davis?
The smell of heather after rain, the crisp night air with the stars shining clear in the sky.
The morning it all started was just another of those crisp September mornings.
But a crisp champagne salad. Excellent.
I like this crisp, new attitude of yours. You're growing up, and I like it.
I'd have thought it would've been burned to a crisp by now.
Do you understand? There should be enough juice in that line to burn the thing to a crisp.
The eggs dry, the bacon crisp.
Done crisp.
As a matter of fact, I'm considered pretty crisp, in a manly sort of way.
Besides, George, your shirts haven't looked as crisp and fresh as they should.
I'll write a series of articles about her that'll burn her to a crisp. - For what paper?
Even if it misses us by 5,000 miles. its heat could shrivel us to a crisp in nothing flat.
Like the rest of them burned to a crisp.
We found them, seared to a crisp.
Life starts again when things get crisp in the fall.
I want nappies that come in crisp hygienic packets, and safety pins and chemists.
CRISP?
LETTUCE IS CRISP.
I like mine burned crisp, and you can set it to burn food just like ya like it.
That face was once crisp and cleanly rendered like this paw I am standing on.

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Societal mechanisms simply cannot be adjusted without a crisp, practiced understanding of a culture.
His demeanor was crisp yet easy-going.

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