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Chips   /tʃɪps/   Listen
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



... sheriff wa'nt more'n a mile b'hind yuh. An' I s'pose you feel it all the more, seein' the round-up's jest startin' out. Weary said yuh was playin' big luck, if yuh only knew enough t' cash in yer chips at the right time, but he's afraid yuh wouldn't be watching the game close enough an' ud lose yer pile. I don't know what he was drivin' at, an' I guess he didn't neither. It's too bad, anyway. I guess yuh didn't expect t' ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
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... worse'n a pair of dice. Here, Fatty. Load up with quinine and whisky. It's sure good for chills." The man behind the bandanna gravely handed his victim back a dollar. "Write me if it cures you. Now for the sky-pilot. No white chips on this plate, parson. It's a contribution to the needy heathen. You want to be generous. How much ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
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... without being subject to attacks on his country: Mr. Holt observed that he thought precisely the same, which species of agreement closed the conversation. And the States'-man relieved his feelings subsequently by whittling a stick from the firewood into impalpable chips, with his heels resting on the apex of the saloon stove. Kind-hearted Hiram Holt had meanwhile more than half repented ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
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... except fall off his pony, and knock chips out of gate posts with his trap. Even that became monotonous after a time. He objected to whist, cut the cloth at billiards, sang out of tune, kept very much to himself, and wrote to his Mamma and sisters at Home. Four of these five things were vices which the "Shikarris" objected to ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various
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... the axe slowly and without trying to bury its head at every blow and prying it loose again, but with regular strokes first across the grain at the bottom and then in a slanting direction at the top. The size of the chips you make will be a measure of your degree of skill. Hold the handle rather loosely and keep your eye on the place you wish to hit and not on the axe. Do not work around the tree or girdle it but keep right at the ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
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