chip

chip [chip]

vt.

chipped, chipping [ME chippen < OE * cippian < cipp, log, plowshare < L cippus, post, stake < IE base * k̑eipo-, sharp post]

1. Rare to cut or chop with an ax or other sharp tool

2.

a) to break or cut a small piece or thin slice from

b) to break or cut off (a small piece or pieces)

3. to shape by cutting or chopping [to chip a hole in the ice]

4. Tennis to hit (a ball) in a short, soft shot with backspin

vi.

1.

a) to break off in small pieces [this paint chips easily]

b) to lose or be inherently subject to losing a small part or parts of itself [the plate will chip easily]

2. Golf to make a chip shot

3. Tennis to hit a short, soft shot with backspin

n.

[ME chippe < the v.]

1. a small, thin piece of wood, stone, etc., cut or broken off

2. a place where a small piece has been chipped off [a chip on the edge of a plate]

3. wood, palm leaf, or straw split and woven into bonnets, hats, etc.

☆ 4. a fragment of dried animal dung, sometimes used for fuel

☆ 5. a worthless thing

6. one of the small, round disks or counters used in poker and other gambling games as a token for money

7.

a) a thin slice or small piece of food [a potato chip, a chocolate chip]

b) [pl.] Chiefly Brit. French fried potatoes

8. Electronics

a) a semiconductor body in which an integrated circuit is formed or is to be formed

b) INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

9. Golf CHIP SHOT

10. Tennis a shot that is chipped

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☆ cash in one's chips

1. to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money

2. Slang to die

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☆ chip in Informal

1. to share in giving money or help

2. to add one's comments

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chip off the old block

a person much like his or her parent in appearance or characteristics

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☆ chip on one's shoulder

Informal an inclination to fight or quarrel

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☆ in the chips

Slang rich; wealthy

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let the chips fall where they may

let the consequences be what they may

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☆ when the chips are down

when something is really at stake