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[[t]tʃɪp[/t]]

n. v. chipped, chip•ping

1) a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking

2) coo a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.:

chocolate chips[/ex]

3) a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece:

This glass has a chip[/ex]

4) gam any of the small round disks, used as tokens for money in roulette, poker, and some other gambling games; counter

5) elo elm

Also called microchip a tiny slice of semiconducting material on which a transistor or an integrated circuit is formed.

6) anything trivial or worthless

7) a piece of dried dung:

buffalo chips[/ex]

8) spo

chip shot

9) spo a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin

10) coo chips, Chiefly Brit.

French fries

11) to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc

12) to break off or gouge out (a bit or fragment):

to chip a piece of ice from a large block[/ex]

13) to cut or break a bit or fragment from:

to chip a tooth[/ex]

14) to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces:

to chip a figure out of wood[/ex]

15) spo Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, producing backspin

16) to break off in small pieces

17) spo to make a chip shot

18) phv chip in

a) to give as one's share; contribute:

We each chipped in five dollars[/ex]

b) to share a cost or burden by giving money or aid:

to chip in on a birthday cake[/ex]

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- chip off the old block chip on one's shoulder

Etymology: 1300–50; (n.) ME; cf. OE cipp plowshare, beam (v.) late ME chippen; cf. OE -cippian in forcippian to cut off; akin to MLG, MD kippen to chip, hatch chip′pa•ble, adj. II

chip

[[t]tʃɪp[/t]] v. chipped, chip•ping, n.

1) to chirp or squeak; cheep

2) a chirp or squeak; cheep

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Etymology: 1880–85; var. of cheep