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chip verb (chipped, chipping) 1 (sometimes chip at something) to knock or strike small pieces off (a hard object or material). 2 intrans 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. 5 tr & intr, 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. 2 a place from which a piece has been chipped off • a big chip in the lid. 3 Brit (usually chips) strips of deep-fried potato. See also French fries. 4 N Amer (also potato chip) a potato crisp. 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. chipped adj 1 shaped or damaged by chips. 2 shaped into chips • chipped potatoes. a chip off the old block colloq someone who strongly resembles one of their parents in personality, behaviour or appearance. have a chip on one's shoulder colloq to feel resentful about something, especially unreasonably. have had one's chips colloq 1 to have failed or been beaten. 2 to have been killed. when the chips are down colloq at the moment of crisis; when it comes to the point.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon cipp log, ploughshare or beam.

chip verb (chipped, chipping) 1 (sometimes chip at something) to knock or strike small pieces off (a hard object or material). 2 intrans 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. 5 tr & intr, 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. 2 a place from which a piece has been chipped off • a big chip in the lid. 3 Brit (usually chips) strips of deep-fried potato. See also French fries. 4 N Amer (also potato chip) a potato crisp. 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. chipped adj 1 shaped or damaged by chips. 2 shaped into chips • chipped potatoes. a chip off the old block colloq someone who strongly resembles one of their parents in personality, behaviour or appearance. have a chip on one's shoulder colloq to feel resentful about something, especially unreasonably. have had one's chips colloq 1 to have failed or been beaten. 2 to have been killed. when the chips are down colloq at the moment of crisis; when it comes to the point.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon cipp log, ploughshare or beam.

chip verb (chipped, chipping) 1 (sometimes chip at something) to knock or strike small pieces off (a hard object or material). 2 intrans 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. 5 tr & intr, 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. 2 a place from which a piece has been chipped off • a big chip in the lid. 3 Brit (usually chips) strips of deep-fried potato. See also French fries. 4 N Amer (also potato chip) a potato crisp. 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. chipped adj 1 shaped or damaged by chips. 2 shaped into chips • chipped potatoes. a chip off the old block colloq someone who strongly resembles one of their parents in personality, behaviour or appearance. have a chip on one's shoulder colloq to feel resentful about something, especially unreasonably. have had one's chips colloq 1 to have failed or been beaten. 2 to have been killed. when the chips are down colloq at the moment of crisis; when it comes to the point.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon cipp log, ploughshare or beam.