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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



... your suggestions as to typography or paragraphing whatsoever. He wears slippers and smokes a primitive clay pipe; he has everything in its place, and you cannot offend him more than by looking over any proof except when he is holding it. A chip of himself is the copyholder at his side,—a meagre, freckled, matter of fact youth, who reads your tenderest sentences in a rapid monotone, and is never known to venture any opinion or suggestion whatever. This boy, I ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... for Goethe; if so, it went all agley. Yet, in the course of that pageant, his career, there did happen just one humiliation—one thing that needed to be hushed up. There Tischbein's defalcation was; a chip in the marble, a flaw in the crystal, just one thread loose in the ...
— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm
... plaintive may-be of the goldfinch tells me he is stealing my lettuce-seeds. I know not what the experience of others may have been, but the only bird I have ever hard sing in the night has been the chip-bird. I should say he sang about as often during the darkness as cocks crow. One can hardly help fancying that he ...
— My Garden Acquaintance • James Russell Lowell
... patch of late sunshine flitted a small butterfly—one of the Grapta species. It settled on a chip of wood, uncoiled its delicate proboscis, and spread its fulvous and ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... be done, and I'd as soon Believe this knife will chip the moon, Accept my present, undeterred, And leave their ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan


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