(crisper, crispest, crisps, crisping, crisped)
1.
Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
Bake the potatoes for 15 minutes, till they're nice and crisp.
...crisp bacon.
...crisp lettuce.
? soggy
ADJ [approval]
• crispness
The pizza base retains its crispness without becoming brittle.
N-UNCOUNT
• crisply
...crisply fried onion rings.
ADV
2.
If food crisps or if you crisp it, it becomes pleasantly hard, for example because you have heated it at a high temperature.
Cook the bacon until it begins to crisp...
Spread breadcrumbs on a dry baking sheet and crisp them in the oven.
VERB: V, V n
3.
Crisps are very thin slices of fried potato that are eaten cold as a snack. (
BRIT; in AM, use chips
or potato chips
)
...a packet of crisps.
...cheese and onion potato crisps.
N-COUNT: usu pl
4.
Weather that is pleasantly fresh, cold, and dry can be described as crisp.
...a crisp autumn day.
ADJ [approval]
5.
Crisp cloth or paper is clean and has no creases in it.
I slipped between the crisp clean sheets.
...crisp banknotes.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• crisply
...his crisply pressed suit.
ADV