chip
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chip/tʃɪp/
▶noun
- 1 a small, thin piece removed in the course of chopping, cutting, or breaking a hard material.
■ a blemish left by the removal of a chip.
■ Brit. wood or woody fibre split into thin strips and used for weaving hats or baskets.
- 2 Brit. a long rectangular piece of deep-fried potato.
■ (also potato chip) N. Amer. a potato crisp.
- 3 short for microchip.
- 4 a counter used in certain gambling games to represent money.
- 5 (in soccer or golf) a short lofted kick or shot.
- 1 cut or break (a chip) from a hard material.
■ (of a hard material or object) break at the edge or on the surface.
- 2 (chip away at) gradually and relentlessly make (something) smaller or weaker: rivals may chip away at one's profits.
- 3 (chip in) contribute one's share of a joint activity.
■ informal make an interjection.
- 4 (usu. as adj. chipped) Brit. cut (a potato) into chips.
- 5 (in soccer or golf) strike (the ball) to produce a short lofted shot or pass.
– phrases
a chip off the old block informal someone who resembles their parent in character.
a chip on one's shoulder informal a deeply ingrained grievance.
have had one's chips Brit. informal be dead or out of contention.
when the chips are down informal when a very serious situation arises.
a chip off the old block informal someone who resembles their parent in character.
a chip on one's shoulder informal a deeply ingrained grievance.
have had one's chips Brit. informal be dead or out of contention.
when the chips are down informal when a very serious situation arises.
– origin ME: rel. to OE forcippian ‘cut off’.
'chip' also found in these Oxford entries:
biochip
- blue-chip
- chip and PIN
- chipper
- chippy
- clipper
- CMOS
- flip chip
- jetton
- monolithic
- silicon chip
- spall
- spell
- spick and span
- spoon
- taco chip
- V-chip
