Chips vs Chaps - What's the difference?
chips | chaps |
(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) french fried potatoes; french fries.
(US, Canada, South Africa) Thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags; potato chips, nacho chips, etc.
(chap)
Protective leather leggings attached at the waist.
As nouns the difference between chips and chaps
is that chips is plural of lang=en while chaps is plural of lang=en.As a verb chaps is
third-person singular of chap.As a proper noun CHAPS is
acronym of clearing house automated payment system:|lang=en a method of same-day banking transfer.chips
English
Noun
(head)- Wow, look at the chips on that motherboard!
- What kind of chips should we get, barbecue or sour cream and onion?
Derived terms
* cheap as chips * when the chips are downchaps
English
Etymology 1
From (chap).Noun
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Short for American Spanish chaparreras.Noun
(wikipedia chaps) (en-plural noun)- If you are going to use that chainsaw, why don't you put on a pair of chaps ?
- Chaps were a costume staple of Westerns.