Australian and New Zealand term for what the British call crisps and Americans call potato chips — thin, fried, packaged snack chips. The cold distinguishes them from hot chips, meaning freshly fried potato fries. A perfectly ordinary term in Australasian English, illustrating how the same word does different jobs across regional varieties.
She grabbed a packet of cold chips from the servo on the way home.
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(Australia, New Zealand) potato chips, crisps.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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