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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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Etymology of 'Chip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chip" Quotes from Famous Books

... also; and the turkey nearly died a natural and premature death from over-eating. Donald came, too; Donald, with a line of down upon his upper lip, and Greek and Latin on his tongue, and stores of knowledge in his handsome head, and stories—bless me, you couldn't turn over a chip without reminding Donald of something that happened ...

— The Birds' Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... right," said Hugh. "Who doubts her being right? Bless my soul! What's any girl to do if she don't like a man except to tell him so? I honour you, Dolly,—not that I ever should have doubted you. You're too much of a chip of the old block to say you liked a man when ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... the field. These white folks can tell you I loved to work. I used to get as much as the men. My mammy was a worker and as the sayin' is, I was a chip ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... on, stepping neatly with his small, tan-booted, spurred feet between the dung and chip fires curling up in blue smoke-spirals, and the sprawling children, seeming as though he did not notice them, yet catching up one that had a rash, and satisfying himself that the eruption was innocent ere he passed on, visiting every ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... thumb, and after a while noticed me with a sidelong vexed look. The other three chaps that had landed with him made a little group waiting at some distance. There was a sallow-faced, mean little chap with his arm in a sling, and a long individual in a blue flannel coat, as dry as a chip and no stouter than a broomstick, with drooping grey moustaches, who looked about him with an air of jaunty imbecility. The third was an upstanding, broad-shouldered youth, with his hands in his pockets, turning his back on the other two who appeared ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

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