How to say "chips" in Japanese

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切りくずきりくず
nounChips as scraps cut away from wood, metal, or similar material while cutting or shaping it — the workshop sense, never the food.
フライドポテト
nounThe food sense: deep-fried potato strips, what British English calls chips and American English calls French fries, as when ordering fast food.
フライポテトのラージサイズをください。↗
Large fries, please.
ポテトフライ
nounAnother name for the same fried-potato dish; use it for the British 'chips' sense — French fries — just as with フライドポテト.
素片そへん
nounReally means 'fragments': its 'chips' sense is small pieces broken off a larger piece of material. It is not the word for the food and is seldom the word you want for everyday 'chips'.
フレンチフライ
nounA further name for the fried-potato food, so it too covers British 'chips'; it refers to French fries, not to chips of wood or metal.

Distinguish three senses: chips as cut-off scraps (「切りくず」), chips as fried potatoes (「フライドポテト」, 「ポテトフライ」, 「フレンチフライ」), and chips as small fragments (素片, really 'fragments').

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