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Definition: Potato Chip |
Potato ChipNoun1. A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Potato ChipSynonyms: chip (n), crisp (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's a potato chip. (It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) Well, I'll be. I wonder how a potato chip got all the way down here from Brazil! (It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) | |
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Books | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Crunching a potato chip. |
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Economic History | Taiwan | Prospects for U.S. potato chip exports to Taiwan are quite good. (references) |
Taiwan | In 2000, potato chip imports dropped 18 percent, mainly due to an advertisement on the negative impact of consumption of potato chips by a Taiwan consumer protection organization. (references) | |
Canada | According to a major industry survey, the sales leader among salted snack foods in Canada is the potato chip, accounting for nearly 60 percent of total salted snack food sales. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
potato chip | 324 | humpty dumpty potato chip | 10 |
lay potato chip | 126 | hostess potato chip | 9 |
wise potato chip | 53 | snyders potato chip | 9 |
cape cod potato chip | 46 | baked lay potato chip | 7 |
utz potato chip | 42 | ketchup potato chip | 5 |
jays potato chip | 40 | middlesworth potato chip | 5 |
old dutch potato chip | 35 | kitchen cooked potato chip | 4 |
martins potato chip | 33 | potato chip slicer | 4 |
ruffle potato chip | 28 | dill pickle potato chip | 3 |
wow potato chip | 21 | salt pepper potato chip | 3 |
chocolate covered potato chip | 18 | state line potato chip | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "potato chip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Pommes frites (chips, french fries), kartoffelchip (potato crisp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ポテトチップ , ポテチ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otatopay ipchay batata frita (chips). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-o-o-p-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: apoptotic. | |
-2 letters: photopia, photopic. | |
-3 letters: aphotic, topcoat. | |
-4 letters: atopic, cahoot, haptic, octopi, phatic, photic, potato, ptotic, tipcat, tiptop. | |
-5 letters: achoo, aitch, attic, chapt, chiao, chott, coapt, coati, coopt, cotta, hippo, optic, patch, patio, photo, picot, pitch, poach, pooch, potto, tacit, tooth, tophi, topic, topoi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-o-o-p-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: protopathic. | |
+4 letters: photoduplicate. | |
+5 letters: photoduplicated, photoduplicates, phototropically, phytopathogenic, phytoplanktonic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 61 74 6F 43 68 69 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101111 00100000 01000011 01101000 01101001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t a t o   C h i p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 0061 0074 006F 0043 0068 0069 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508186678681237747582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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