crust

Examples

• All

• There's crust on top of it.

  Jackass Forever (2022)

• And then I'm just going to roll out some short crust pastry.

• I cut off crust for you.

  Running Scared (2006)

• Yes, he ordered just the crust of a pizza.

• There is no crust that cannot be stuffed.

• "I tell him my troubles and eat the piece of crust he has left on the plate."

  Fiction book (1994)

• So I got pizza crust, pizza sauce, pizza cheese.

• The moon Europa seemed to have a thin crust of ice above an ocean thirty miles deep.

  Academic text (2001)

• I like this chickpea crust pizza called Banza.

  The Try Guys

• And it's a beaut: the crust all fluted like a seashell, a perfect tan color.

  Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

L

layer

vscrust

373 2.0

A thin sheet of material that covers a surface

is a hard outer covering specifically not any general sheet or stratum

E

encrustation

vscrust

1 7.5

A hard outer layer that forms on something, for example mineral build up on pipes

is the basic name for a hard outer covering rather than the process

I

incrustation

vscrust

1 9.1

A hard layer of minerals or dirt that forms on a surface

is the static name for a hard outer covering rather than the forming process

Antonyms

S

soft

557 1.0

Easily pressed when you touch it

I

inner

1 2.8

The inside part of something like a coat or tire

Idioms

E

to earn crust

• UK

1 9.0

To make enough money to live

Compounds

E

Earth's crust

• Specialized

13 3.5

The solid outer layer of the Earth that forms its surface

P

pie crust

11 1.1

A thin pastry layer used as the bottom or top of a pie that holds the filling

U

upper crust

• Informal

6 6.8

A small group of the richest and most important people in society

How Thick

shell

323 1.0

bark

69 1.0

to rind

1 9.4

crust

107 1.1

skin

52 1.0

film

32 3.2

Surface Forms

Etymology