chips
芯片,筹码,薯片,薯条
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
- : a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips.
- : a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip.
- : any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker;counter.
- : Also called microchip .Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed.Compare microprocessor.
- : a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.
- : anything trivial or worthless.
- : something dried up or without flavor.
- : a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips.
- : wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.
- : Golf. chip shot.
- : Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.
- : the strip of material removed by a recording stylus as it cuts the grooves in a record.
- : chips, Chiefly British. French fries.
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chipped, chip·ping.
- : to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.
- : to cut, break off, or gouge out: He chipped a few pieces of ice from the large cube.
- : to disfigure by breaking off a fragment: to chip the edge of a saucer.
- : to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces: to chip a figure out of wood.
- : Games. to bet by means of chips, as in poker.
- : Tennis. to slice on a return shot, causing it to have heavy backspin.
- : Slang. to take occasionally, especially only in sufficient quantity to achieve a mild euphoria.
- : Chiefly British Sports. to hit or kick a short distance forward.
- : British Slang. to jeer or criticize severely; deride; taunt.
- : Australian. to hoe; harrow.
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chipped, chip·ping.
- : to break off in small pieces.
- : Golf. to make a chip shot.
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- : chip in, to contribute money or assistance; participate. Games.to bet a chip or chips, as in poker.to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in: We all chipped in with our suggestions for the reunion.
Phrases
- chip and dip
- chip in
- chip off the old block
- chip on one's shoulder
- cash in (one's chips)
- in the money (chips)
- let the chips fall where they may
- when the chips are down
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.
At under 200 pages, the book seems like chips and salsa on the table when you are expecting a four course meal.
By 6:15, the tented concession stands have run out of sandwiches and chips and are only selling granola bars and soda.
And what that left was the jewelry and the stack of black chips and the girl who worked nights for a living.
In 2012, the new chips were rolled out—first as Ruffles Ultimate in the U.S. in the spring.
A Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or pieces of anything else which has contained it.
Thereafter we were buffeted like chips in the swirling maw of a whirlpool; we fought our way rod by rod.
This explanation seemed very likely, for here and there were stumps of trees and decaying chips.
Two boys waded out into the sea, one with a stick, and the other with a quantity of burning chips.
She sat sewing daily by the swimming pool while Benny sailed wonderful boats of chips, and waded around to his heart's content.