hot chips

English

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Noun

hot chips pl (plural only)

(Australia, New Zealand) french fries.

Usage notes

Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" is used to refer to 'french fries' and just "chips" is used to refer to 'crisps'.

Related terms

cold chips

Anagrams

chip shot, chip-shot, chipshot

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