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Chip   /tʃɪp/   Listen
noun
Chip  n.  
1.
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
2.
A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
3.
Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
4.
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; used contemptuously.
5.
One of the counters used in poker and other games.
6.
(Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo.
Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape.
Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3.
A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. (Colloq.)
Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.


verb
Chip  v. t.  (past & past part. chipped; pres. part. chipping)  
1.
To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
2.
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
3.
To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. (Slang. U. S.)


Chip  v. i.  To break or fly off in small pieces.





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"Chip" Quotes from Famous Books



... went on, grandma declared that I helped her a great deal because I kept her chip-box full, shooed the hens out of the house, brought in the eggs, and drove the little chicks to bed, nights. I don't recollect that I was ever tired or sleepy, yet I know that the night must have sped, between the time of my last nod at the funny shadow ...
— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
... palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; mining of gold, silver, and copper; crude oil production; ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... went over to Truro yesterday to the wrastlin', an' got thrawed. I tell'n there's no call to be shamed. 'Twas Luke the Wendron fella did it—in the treble play—inside lock backward, and as pretty a chip as ever I see." Mendarva began to illustrate it with foot and ankle, but checked himself, and glanced nervously over his shoulder. "Isn' lookin', I hope? He's in a terrible pore about it. Won't trust hissel' to spake, and don't want to see nobody. But, as I tell'n, there's no call ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... remains the memory of those hours, while I sat watchful of the helm, her head resting peacefully on my lap, and all about us those lonely tossing waters! What a mere chip was our boat in the midst of that desolate sea; how dark and dreary the changeless night shadows! Over and over again I pictured the details of each scene I have here set forth so poorly, to dream at the end ...
— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish
... pocket for two old pennies he had. But Swampy had got a suspicion somehow that one of those pennies had two heads on it, and he wasn't sure that the other hadn't two tails—also, he suspected Brummy of some skill in "palming," so he picked up a chip from the wood-heap, spat on it, and spun it into the air. "Sing out!" he ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson


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