bag of chips
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- noun
- /bæɡ əv tʃɪps/
- US
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bolsa de papas fritas
- I grabbed a bag of chips to snack on during the movie.
- grab a bag of chips
- buy a bag of chips
- big bag of chips
It's like my favorite bag of chips besides sour cream and cheddar.
- It's like my favorite bag of chips besides sour cream and cheddar.
- That's what you would say about like a snack, like a bag of chips you can't stop eating.
- Your spouse calls you and says, hey, go buy a bag of chips and bring them home for a little party.
- That food stylist must have had at least four or five people searching through bags of chips.
- Yeah, But things like opening a bag of chips.
- It sounds as if you're ruffling open the bag of chips or something.
- I, I know we had like bags of chips, possibly some balloons, something, anything but gunshots.
- I bought this bag of chips last week, and today I went back in the same aisle and instead of chips, it's toilet paper.
Examples
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He always keeps a bag of chips in his backpack for a quick snack.
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At the picnic, everyone enjoyed a bag of chips with their sandwiches.
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Just for like a bag of chips or something.
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Right, then you just grab another bag of chips and you try again.
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I saw that he got a bag of chips.
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-Can I get a bag of chips?
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The three men looked up, passed around a bag of chips,
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I'll grab a bag of chips.
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Your spouse calls you and says, hey, go buy a bag of chips and bring them home for a little party.
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Instead of eating a candy bar or a bag of chips as a snack, have some fruit instead.
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Synonyms
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Thick fried potato pieces eaten hot as a snack or side
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a packet containing potato chips' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bag' (a container) + 'of' (indicating contents) + 'chips' (the snack). This container-of-content pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun phrase structure, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Bag of chips is a very simple, literal name: a bag filled with chips, a small packet you open to eat a crunchy 'snack'. That's why it means 'a packet containing potato chips'.