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potato skin

potato skin

2 2.1
A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon
  • noun
  • /pəˈteɪtoʊ skɪn/
  • US
translation icon : cáscara de papa
  • At the restaurant, everyone enjoyed sharing a plate of potato skins filled with sour cream and chives.
  • love potato skins

Probably say no You sure got these great potato skins and we're having drinks and look, I, I love potato skins and I, I love alcoholic beverages.

Examples

  • I ordered crispy potato skins topped with melted cheese and bacon as an appetizer.

  • How're the potato skins and salmon treating you, Fosters?

    Date Night (2010)

  • God, I love potato skins.

    License to Wed (2007)

  • Well, enjoy the potato skins and the salmon.

    Date Night (2010)

  • Because those potato skins made me kind of gassy.

    Date Night (2010)

  • My favorite part about these potatoes is the buttered crisp potato skins.

    Blog text (4)

  • She nodded into my chest, then pulled away to resume her work on the potato skins.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Probably say no You sure got these great potato skins and we're having drinks and look, I, I love potato skins and I, I love alcoholic beverages.

    Film Courage

  • Probably say no, you sure got these great potato skins and we're having drinks and look, I, I love potato skins and I, I love alcoholic beverages.

  • The chef prepared delicious potato skins that were golden brown and perfectly seasoned.

Synonyms

potato peel
vspotato skin
1.7

A thin fried strip of potato skin eaten as a snack

is served with fillings or toppings as a fuller appetizer
potato peelings
vspotato skin
1.5

Thin strips of potato skin you fry until crisp and eat as a snack

is usually heartier and served with toppings rather than just a garnish

Surface Forms

potato skin singular
potato skins plural

Morphology

potato + skin

The meaning is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'potato' (the tuber) and 'skin' (outer layer) will infer this refers to the outer layer/peel of a potato and, in a food context, a prepared snack made from that skin. Noun-noun compounding for food items is a common, cross-linguistically transparent pattern, so the sense is predictable from the constituents.

Etymology

Potato skin comes from using the potato's outer skin as a little bowl after the soft inside is removed. Topped with cheese, bacon, or sour cream, these crispy skins became a popular 'appetizer', so today potato skin means that snack made from the potato's skin.