potato chip
nounDefinition of potato chip
: a thin slice of white potato that has been cooked until crisp and then usually salted
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The shopping list for people who have decided to ride out the storm at home: plywood to board up their windows, sandbags, bilge pumps, generators, trash bags, potato chips, bottled water and wine. — Fox News, "WHAT'S HAPPENING: Hurricane Florence looms over East Coast," 13 Sep. 2018 Now compare that with 1,600 empty calories, which roughly equals 1 candy bar, 1 bag of potato chips, 1 fast food cheeseburger, and a small chocolate shake. — Joy Bauer, Woman's Day, "How to Stay Full on Fewer Calories," 16 Aug. 2018 Transfer potato chip crumbs onto a plate or shallow bowl. — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, "Fish 'N' Chips," 22 Sep. 2015 The service was friendly, and my grandsons appreciated the homemade potato chips and activities place mats that arrived the moment we were seated. — Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, "Bounce in a dune buggy on a sandy weekend escape to Pismo Beach," 7 June 2018 Butler worked the room, mingling with a saxophonist, the mayor, two beauty pageant queens and countless friends and family as the B&B served fried chicken, grits, fresh fruit and individual bags of Chick-fil-A potato chips. — Emily Kaplan, SI.com, "A Hero’s Welcome for Malcolm Butler," 24 Feb. 2015 And there’s a lingering aftertaste that mimics dill pickle potato chips, but this isn’t the flavor suicide so many people on social media predicted. — Robert Morast, Houston Chronicle, "Sonic’s new slush won’t put you in a pickle," 20 June 2018 Pack apples, carrots, granola bars, potato chips or popcorn as snacks. — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, "Sun and food safety tips for the Fourth of July," 3 July 2018 In a few weeks, the aspen leaf miners will turn many of those leaves into silver potato chips. — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, "What it’s like to run circles for 24 hours around the land of no night," 9 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'potato chip.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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