chip /chip/ transitive verb (chippˈing; chipped)- To strike with small sharp cutting blows
- To strike or break small pieces off the surface of (also with at)
- To remove by chipping (often with away or off)
- To slice or pare
- To cut as with an adze
- To chaff, tease (informal)
intransitive verb- To become chipped
- To play a chip shot
noun- An act of chipping
- A piece chipped off, esp a flattish fragment
- A small fragment of stone (also chippˈing)
- A surface flaw or mark left when a small piece has been broken off
- A thin slice or small piece of food, eg fruit
- A potato-chip
- A potato crisp (N American)
- A thin strip of wood, used for making boxes, baskets, etc
- A basket or container made in this way
- A small, flat piece of wood, plastic, etc used to represent money in certain games
- A popular name for an integrated circuit, derived from the method of manufacture in which each chip, containing the microcircuit, is made as part of a wafer (also called microchip or silicon chip)
- A piece of money (slang)
- A piece of dried dung of cow or bison
- A hit or kick which sends a ball high into the air over a short distance (sport)
- A chip shot (golf)
- A key on a musical instrument (archaic)
ORIGIN: ME chippen; MLGer, MDu kippen to hatch by chipping shell chippˈer noun - A device that makes chips
- A chip shop (Irish inf)
chippˈie noun (NZ) A potato crisp chippˈing noun chippˈy adjective - Abounding in chips
- Dry as a chip
- Seedy from taking too much alcohol
- Touchy, quarrelsome, aggressive (Can informal)
- Having a chip on one's shoulder (see below; informal)
noun- (also chippˈie) (a meal from) a chip shop (informal)
- See also chips and separate entry chippy1
chips noun (slang) - A carpenter (also chippˈy)
- A regimental pioneer sergeant, usu a carpenter
- Money
plural noun (informal)Fried potato-chips chip and PIN noun A system of payment using a credit or debit card with an integrated microchip, the card-holder entering a personal identification number to authorize the payment chipˈ-based adjective (electronics) (of parts or equipment) using, controlled by or incorporating microchips chip basket noun - A fruit basket of interwoven chips
- A metal basket in which potato-chips are placed for frying
chipˈboard noun - Reconstructed wood made by consolidation of chips from woodland trimmings, workshop waste, etc, with added resin
- A wastepaper cardboard used in box-making
chip carving noun Wood carving by removal of small splinters chip hat noun A hat of palm-leaf strips chip heater noun (Aust and NZ) A type of water-heater that is fuelled by burning chips of wood chipˈset noun (computing) A group of chips that performs particular functions chip shop noun A restaurant selling takeaway meals of fish and chips, etc chip shot noun (golf) A shot, usu from close to the green, giving the ball a low trajectory so that it runs forward on pitching chip in - To enter the game by putting chips on the table (gambling)
- To interpose
- To pay part of the cost of something (informal)
chip off (or origof) the old block Someone with the characteristics of (usu one of) their parents chip on one's shoulder - An aggressively defiant manner, as if daring anyone to knock it off
- Sensitivity or readiness to take offence, usu about a supposed fault or weakness in one's personality or background
- Bitterness, grievance
have had one's chips - To have died
- To have had and lost one's chance
- To have been beaten
when the chips are down At a moment of crisis or critically important time potato /pə-tāˈtō/ noun (pl potāˈtoes)- Orig the sweet potato, plant or tuber (see under sweet)
- Now usu a S American plant, Solanum tuberosum, widely grown in temperate regions, or its tuber
- Someone who sits or lies about by the hour in vegetable-like inertia, as in couch potato, beach potato (slang)
ORIGIN: Sp patata, from Haitian batata sweet potato potato apple noun The small berry-like fruit of the potato plant potato blight noun A destructive disease of the potato caused by either of the parasitic fungi Alternaria solani (early blight) or Phytophthora infestans (late blight) potato bogle noun (Scot) A scarecrow potato chips plural noun - (usu simply chips) long thinly sliced pieces of potato fried in fat
- Potato crisps (esp N American)
potato crisps plural noun (usu simply crisps) very thin crisp fried slices of potato, widely produced commercially potato disease or potato rot noun Any of several bacterial or fungal diseases of potatoes potato finger noun (Shakespeare) A fat finger potato pancake noun A pancake made from a batter containing grated potatoes potato pit noun A clamp of potatoes potato race noun - Any of various types of race involving the picking up, carrying or passing on of potatoes
- A stopping-and-starting style of sprinting race
potato ring noun An 18c Irish ceramic or metal (esp silver) ring for standing a bowl on potato scone noun A flat savoury griddle cake made from flour, milk and mashed potato potato spirit noun Alcohol made from potatoes potato trap noun (slang) The mouth hot potato (slang) - A controversial issue
- A tricky problem or assignment that one would prefer not to touch
small potatoes (US) Anything of no great worth the potato or the clean potato (informal) The right thing |