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chip

1  [chip] noun, verb, chipped, chip⋅ping.
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–noun
1. a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
2. a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips.
3. a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip.
4. any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker; counter.
5. Also called microchip. Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed. Compare microprocessor.
6. a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.
7. anything trivial or worthless.
8. something dried up or without flavor.
9. a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips.
10. wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.
11. Golf. chip shot.
12. Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.
13. the strip of material removed by a recording stylus as it cuts the grooves in a record.
14. chips, Chiefly British. French fries.
–verb (used with object)
15. to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.
16. to cut, break off, or gouge out (bits or fragments): He chipped a few pieces of ice from the large cube.
17. to disfigure by breaking off a fragment: to chip the edge of a saucer.
18. to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces: to chip a figure out of wood.
19. Games. to bet by means of chips, as in poker.
20. Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, causing it to have heavy backspin.
21. Slang. to take (a narcotic drug) occasionally, esp. only in sufficient quantity to achieve a mild euphoria.
22. Chiefly British Sports. to hit or kick (a ball) a short distance forward.
23. British Slang. to jeer or criticize severely; deride; taunt.
24. Australian. to hoe; harrow.
–verb (used without object)
25. to break off in small pieces.
26. Golf. to make a chip shot.
—Verb phrase
27. chip in,
a. to contribute money or assistance; participate.
b. Games. to bet a chip or chips, as in poker.
c. to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in: We all chipped in with our suggestions for the reunion.
—Idioms
28. chip off the old block, a person who resembles one parent in appearance or behavior: His son is just a chip off the old block.
29. chip on one's shoulder, a disposition to quarrel: You will never make friends if you go around with a chip on your shoulder.
30. in the chips, Slang. wealthy; rich: Don't look down on your old friends now that you're in the chips.
31. when the chips are down, in a discouraging or disadvantageous situation; in bad or pressing times: When the chips are down he proves to be a loyal friend.
Origin:
1300–50; (n.) ME chip (cf. OE cipp plowshare, beam, i.e., piece cut off); (v.) late ME chippen (cf. OE -cippian in forcippian to cut off); akin to MLG, MD kippen to chip eggs, hatch

Related forms:
chip⋅pa⋅ble, adjective
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chip 1   (chĭp)   
n.  

  1. A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.

  2. A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.

    1. A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.

    2. chips Slang Money.

    3. Electronics A minute slice of a semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium, doped and otherwise processed to have specified electrical characteristics, especially before it is developed into an electronic component or integrated circuit. Also called microchip.

    4. An integrated circuit.

    5. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip. Often used in the plural.

    6. A very small piece of food or candy. Often used in the plural: chocolate chips.

    7. chips Chiefly British French fries.

    1. Electronics A minute slice of a semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium, doped and otherwise processed to have specified electrical characteristics, especially before it is developed into an electronic component or integrated circuit. Also called microchip.

    2. An integrated circuit.

    3. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip. Often used in the plural.

    4. A very small piece of food or candy. Often used in the plural: chocolate chips.

    5. chips Chiefly British French fries.

    1. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip. Often used in the plural.

    2. A very small piece of food or candy. Often used in the plural: chocolate chips.

    3. chips Chiefly British French fries.

  6. Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.

  7. A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.

  8. Something worthless.

  9. Sports A chip shot.

v.   chipped, chip·ping, chips

v.   tr.

  1. To chop or cut with an ax or other implement.

    1. To break a small piece from: chip a tooth.

    2. To break or cut off (a small piece): chip ice from the window.

  3. To shape or carve by cutting or chopping: chipped her name in the stone.

v.   intr.

  1. To become broken off into small pieces.

  2. Sports To make a chip shot in golf.

  3. To contribute money or labor: We all chipped in for beer.

  4. To interrupt with comments; interject.

  5. To put up chips or money as one's bet in poker and other games.

Phrasal Verb(s):
chip awayTo reduce or make progress on something incrementally: We chipped away until the problem was solved.
chip in

  1. To contribute money or labor: We all chipped in for beer.

  2. To interrupt with comments; interject.

  3. To put up chips or money as one's bet in poker and other games.


Idiom(s):
chip off the old blockA child whose appearance or character closely resembles that of one or the other parent.

Idiom(s):
chip on (one's) shoulderA habitually hostile or combative attitude.

Idiom(s):
when the chips are downAt a critical or difficult time.

[Middle English, from Old English cyp, beam, from Latin cippus.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
chip

  1. n.
    a bargaining chip. : He used his inside info as a chip.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

chip  (v.)
O.E. forcippian "to pare away by cutting," v. form of cipp "small piece of wood," perhaps from PIE base *keipo- "sharp post" (cf. Du. kip "small strip of wood," L. cippus "post, stake, beam"). Sense of "break off fragments" is 18c. Noun meaning "counter used in a game of chance" is first recorded 1840. Electronics sense is from 1962. Meaning "piece of dried dung" first attested 1946. To chip in may come from card-playing. Potato chip is 1859. Chip of the old block is used by Milton (1642). To have a chip on one's shoulder is from at least 1820s, U.S., from the custom of a boy determined to fight putting a chip on his shoulder and defying another to knock it off. Chip in "contribute" is 1861, Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Science Dictionary
chip   (chĭp)  Pronunciation Key 
See integrated circuit.
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Idioms & Phrases

chip in

  1. Contribute money, help, or advice, as in If we all chip in we'll have enough to buy a suitable gift, or Everyone chipped in with ideas for the baby shower. Mark Twain used this term in Roughing It (1872): "I'll be there and chip in and help, too." [Mid-1800s]

  2. In poker and other games, to put up chips or money as one's bet. For example, I'll chip in another hundred but that's my limit or, as Bret Harte put it in Gabriel Conroy (1876): "You've jest cut up thet rough with my higher emotions, there ain't enough left to chip in on a ten-cent ante." [Mid-1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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