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Chips

noun

1.

Strips of potato fried in deep fat. Synonyms: french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries.

Chip

noun

1.

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole. Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap.

2.

A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.

3.

A piece of dried bovine dung. Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung.

4.

A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat. Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip.

5.

A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something. Synonym: check.

6.

A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling. Synonym: poker chip.

7.

Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit. Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip.

8.

(golf) a low running approach shot. Synonym: chip shot.

9.

The act of chipping something. Synonyms: chipping, splintering.

verb

(past & past part. chipped; pres. part. chipping)

1.

Break off (a piece from a whole). Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off.

2.

Cut a nick into. Synonym: nick.

3.

Play a chip shot.

4.

Form by chipping.

5.

Break a small piece off from. Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap. "Chip a tooth"

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"Chips" Quotes from Famous Books

... of these traps. They did not set them at once, for no Bear will go near a thing so suspiciously new-looking. Some Bears will not approach one till it is weather-beaten and gray. But they removed all chips and covered the newly cut wood with mud, then rubbed the inside with stale meat, and hung a lump of ancient venison on ...

— Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac • Ernest Thompson Seton

... very few kernels in them; for the crossbills and chiccadees had been at work for many weeks on the trees; and also many families of their poor relations, the chitmunks or ground squirrels, had not been idle, as our little voyagers could easily guess by the chips and empty cones round their holes. So, weary as they were, they were obliged to run up the tall pine and hemlock trees, to search among the cones that grew on their very top branches. While our squirrels were busy with the few kernels they chanced to find, they were startled from their repast ...

— Lady Mary and her Nurse • Catharine Parr Traill

... day advising one or another about the proper sweaters or blanket coats or peaked caps with tassels, or these here big-eyed boots. You'd meet her in a store with Stella Ballard, eating from a sack of potato chips; and half an hour later she'd be in another store with Daisy Estelle Maybury, munching from a box of ginger wafers; with always a final stop at the Bon Ton Kandy Kitchen for a sack of something to keep life in her ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... took it from his pocket, held it a moment in the sunlight, and handed it to the laird. He glowered at it. He saw an angel from heaven in a thing compact of earth-chips! As near as any thing can be loved of a live soul, the laird loved a fine stone; what in it he loved most, the color, the light, the shape, the value, the mystery, he could not have told!—and here was ...

— The Elect Lady • George MacDonald

... in the middle of an exciting game, Father winning everything, the chips piled high before him. The valet asks: "Will you pardon me? I'll see if I can get some of ...

— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds

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