词汇 | crisp |
词源 | crisp. Crisp is British slang for what Americans call a potato chip. But in British English crisp also means to die by arson, as in “He was crisped in that big fire.” Crisp bread are crackers pop- ular as a bread substitute for dieters. See chip butty; turkey twizzler. |
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