crisp(n = noun.food) chip, potato chip, saratoga chip - a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat; Array
is a kind of snack food
Derived forms verb crisp₂, adjective 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; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  crisp(v = verb.change) crispen, toast - make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"
is one way to heat, heat up
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 sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"

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

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

4.  crisp(s = adj.all) Array - 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; Array

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"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"
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]
"You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . .
Leave jour crisp channels." [1913 Webster]

3.  Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. [1913 Webster]
"The cakes at tea ate short and crisp." [1913 Webster]

4.  Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. [1913 Webster]
"It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years." [1913 Webster]

5.  Lively; sparking; effervescing. [1913 Webster]
"Your neat crisp claret." [1913 Webster]

6.  Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. [1913 Webster]
"The snug, small room, and the crisp fire." [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]
"The lover with the myrtle sprays
Adorns his crisped tresses." [1913 Webster]
"Along the crisped shades and bowers." [1913 Webster]
"The crisped brooks,
Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold." [1913 Webster]

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

   To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. [1913 Webster]
"To watch the crisping ripples on the beach." [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.

honey crisp