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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.

▶verb (chips, chipping, chipped)

• 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.

– origin ME: rel. to OE forcippian ‘cut off’.