Crisps vs Crackers - What's the difference?
crisps | crackers |
(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A snack made from thin slices of deep-fried potato; potato chips or potato crisps
(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)