Crackers vs Chips - What's the difference?
crackers | chips |
(South Africa, only plural) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
*1849 , E.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa , Vol. II, p. 13:
*:Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers ’.
(cracker)
(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.
As nouns the difference between crackers and chips
is that crackers is plural of lang=en while chips is plural of lang=en.As an adjective crackers
is crazy, insane.As a verb crackers
is third-person singular of cracker.crackers
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(head)chips
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(head)- Wow, look at the chips on that motherboard!
- What kind of chips should we get, barbecue or sour cream and onion?
