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crisply

Variant of crisp

adjective

  1. stiff and brittle; easily broken, snapped, or crumbled: crisp bacon, cookies, etc.
  2. fresh and firm: crisp celery
  3. fresh and tidy: a crisp uniform
  4. sharp and clear: a crisp analysis
  5. lively; animated: crisp dialogue
  6. fresh and invigorating; bracing: crisp air
  7. sharply and squarely hit: a crisp tennis shot
  8. closely curled and wiry: crisp hair
  9. rippled; wavy; wrinkled

noun

  1. something crisp; now, specif.,
    1. a piece of food, esp. a cookie, that is thin and crisp or contains a crunchy ingredient
    2. something made crisp, as by overcooking: chiefly in the phrase : dinner burned to a crisp
    3. a dessert consisting of fruit baked with a crumbly topping as of flour, sugar, and butter: apple crisp
  2. Brit. potato chip

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to make or become crisp

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