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crisp

[krisp]

Origin

adjective

(especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.

(especially of food) firm and fresh; not soft or wilted: a crisp leaf of lettuce.

brisk; sharp; clear; decided: a crisp reply.

lively; pithy; sparkling: crisp repartee.

clean-cut, neat, and well-pressed; well-groomed.

EXPAND

bracing; invigorating: crisp air.

crinkled, wrinkled, or rippled, as skin or water.

in small, stiff, or firm curls; curly.

COLLAPSE

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to make or become crisp.

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to curl.

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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:
before 900; Middle English, Old English < Latin crispus curled

Related forms

crisp·ly, adverb

crisp·ness, noun

Synonyms
6. brisk, fresh, nippy.

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World English Dictionary

crisp (krɪsp)

—*adj*
1.	dry and brittle
2.	fresh and firm: crisp lettuce
3.	invigorating or bracing: a crisp breeze
4.	clear; sharp: crisp reasoning
5.	lively or stimulating: crisp conversation
6.	clean and orderly; neat: a crisp appearance
7.	concise and pithy; terse: a crisp reply
8.	wrinkled or curly: crisp hair

—vb
9.	to make or become crisp

—n
10.	(Brit) a very thin slice of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
11.	something that is crisp

[Old English, from Latin crispus curled, uneven, wrinkled]

'crisply

—*adv*

'crispness

—n

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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.

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Slang Dictionary

crisp definition

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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Computing Dictionary

CRISP definition

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.
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