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crisp

  [krisp] adjective, -er, -est, verb, noun
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–adjective
1. (esp. of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
2. (esp. of food) firm and fresh; not soft or wilted: a crisp leaf of lettuce.
3. brisk; sharp; clear; decided: a crisp reply.
4. lively; pithy; sparkling: crisp repartee.
5. clean-cut, neat, and well-pressed; well-groomed.
6. bracing; invigorating: crisp air.
7. crinkled, wrinkled, or rippled, as skin or water.
8. in small, stiff, or firm curls; curly.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
9. to make or become crisp.
10. to curl.
–noun
11. Chiefly British. potato chip.
12. a dessert of fruit, as apples or apricots, baked with a crunchy mixture, usually of bread crumbs, chopped nutmeats, butter, and brown sugar.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE < L crispus curled

Related forms:
crisply, adverb
crispness, noun

Synonyms:
6. brisk, fresh, nippy.
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crisp   (krĭsp)   
adj.   crisp·er, crisp·est

  1. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.

  2. Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.

    1. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.

    2. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.

  4. Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.

  5. Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply. See Synonyms at incisive.

  6. Having small curls, waves, or ripples.

v.   crisped, crisp·ing, crisps

v.   tr.
To make or keep crisp.
v.   intr.
To become or remain crisp.
n.  

  1. Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.

  2. A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.

  3. Chiefly British A potato chip.


[Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
crisp'ly adv., crisp'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
crisp

  1. mod.
    drug intoxicated. (Akin to fried. Compare to toasted.) : Man, is he crisp!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

crisp 
O.E. crisp "curly," from L. crispus "curled." It began to mean "brittle" 1530, for obscure reasons. Figurative sense of "neat, brisk" is from 1814. Potato crisps (the British version of U.S. potato chips) is from 1929.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

CRISP
A Lisp-like language and compiler for the IBM 370 written by Jeff Barnett of SDC, Santa Monica, CA, USA in the early 1970s. It generalised Lisp's two-part cons nodes to n-part nodes.
(1994-11-10)

crisp
(Or "discrete") The opposite of "fuzzy".
(1994-12-23)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

crisp

see burn to a cinder (crisp).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
CRISP

  1. Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects

  2. Consortium Research on Indicators of System Performance

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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