chip Definition

chip
verb chipped, chipping

1. To knock or strike small pieces off (a hard object or material).

Thesaurus: nick, crack, break, fracture, splinter, flake, sliver, notch, whittle, split, slice.
Form: chip at something (sometimes)
intr
2. To be broken off in small pieces; to have small pieces broken off.
3. To shape by chipping.
4. To cut (potatoes) into strips for frying.
tr & intr
5. golf.football.
To strike the ball so that it goes high up in the air over a short distance.

noun

1. A small piece chipped off.

Thesaurus: fragment, shard, flake, sliver, slice, wedge.
2. A place from which a piece has been chipped off.

Example: a big chip in the lid
(Brit)
3. Strips of deep-fried potato. See also French fries.

Form: chips (usually)
(N Amer)
4. A potato crisp.

Form: potato chip (also)
5. In gambling: a plastic counter used as a money token.
6. computing.
A silicon chip.
7. A small piece of stone.
8. Short for chip shot.

Derivative: chipped

Shaped or damaged by chips.

Shaped into chips.
Example: chipped potatoes

Idiom: a chip off the old block

colloq
Someone who strongly resembles one of their parents in personality, behaviour or appearance.

Idiom: have a chip on one's shoulder

colloq
To feel resentful about something, especially unreasonably.

Idiom: have had one's chips

To have failed or been beaten.

To have been killed.

Idiom: when the chips are down

colloq
At the moment of crisis; when it comes to the point.
Thesaurus: in a crisis, in bad times, in adversity.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon cipp log, ploughshare or beam.

Phrasal Verb: chip in

To interrupt.To contribute (eg money, time).
Example: We all chipped in for the car