potato chip

noun

Definition of potato chip

: a thin slice of white potato that has been cooked until crisp and then usually salted

Examples of potato chip in a Sentence

I had a sandwich and a bag of potato chips for lunch.

Recent Examples on the Web Can a potato chip eaten by a woman ever just be a source of calories? — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021 Overshooting on average by just 10 calories a day — the calories in a single potato chip — translates into gaining a pound of fat yearly, 10 pounds of excess fat per decade. — Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021 Family members recalled that as a child, Mr. Seidel kept his baseball cards in a potato chip container. — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2021 All through them were more recent things: bits of driftwood, potato chip bags, rusty cans, and soda bottles. — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Shrinkflation has a long history, according to Dworsky, and has lead to smaller toilet paper rolls, candy bars and potato chip bags over the years. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 23 July 2021 Better Made started in 1930 as the Cross and Peters Co., named after the founders, Cross Moceri and Peter Cipriano, but incorporated a few years later to reflect the goal that the two men had set: To make a better potato chip. — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2021 Often a single item—a potato chip bag, for example—is a maddening fusion of plastics, confounding the goal of easily extracting pure materials to develop a new product. — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2021 This jointless noodle of pure muscle can be used as a snorkel in deep water, rip trees from the ground and, as the authors of this study found out, daintily pluck a potato chip from a table without breaking it. — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2021

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