crisp(n = noun.food) chip, potato chip, saratoga chip - a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat;
Derived form adjective crisp₂, verb crisp₂, adjective crispy₁

1.  crisp(v = verb.contact) crease, crinkle, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"; "The dress got wrinkled"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s; Something ----s something

2.  crisp(v = verb.change) crispen, toast - make brown and crisp by heating; "crisp potatoes"; "toast bread"
Derived form noun crisp₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

1.  crisp(s = adj.all) sharp - (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"; "the sharp crack of a twig"

2.  crisp(s = adj.all) crispy - tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips"
Derived form noun crisp₁, noun crispness₃

3.  crisp(s = adj.all) frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy - pleasantly cold and invigorating; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "snappy weather"

4.  crisp(s = adj.all) - pleasingly firm and fresh; "crisp lettuce"
Derived form noun crispness₁

5.  crisp(s = adj.all) frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy - (of hair) in small tight curls;

6.  crisp(s = adj.all) curt, laconic, terse - brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "short and terse and easy to understand"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"
Derived form noun crispness₂

1.  Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. [1913 Webster]

2.  Curled with the ripple of the water. [1913 Webster]

3.  Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. [1913 Webster]

4.  Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. [1913 Webster]

5.  Lively; sparking; effervescing. [1913 Webster]

6.  Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. [1913 Webster]

1.  To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees. [1913 Webster]

2.  To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. [1913 Webster]

3.  To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking. [1913 Webster]

   To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. [1913 Webster]

   That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling. [1913 Webster]

crisp, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 hard but brittle.
2 a (of air) bracing. b (of a style or manner) lively, brisk and decisive. c (of features etc.) neat and clear-cut. d (of paper) stiff and crackling. e (of hair) closely curling.
--n.
1 (in full potato crisp) Brit. a thin fried slice of potato sold in packets etc. and eaten as a snack or appetizer.
2 a thing overdone in roasting etc. (burnt to a crisp).
--v.tr. & intr.
1 make or become crisp.
2 curl in short stiff folds or waves.

Derivative:
crisply adv. crispness n.

Etymology:
OE f. L crispus curled

N  conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.

VB  be convoluted, wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl, wave, undulate, meander, inosculate, entwine, intwine, twist, coil, roll, wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill, frizzle, crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort, contort, wreathe.

VB  be rough, go against the grain, render-rough, roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

N  roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.

N  brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.