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Synonyms for chips
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : chip |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃɪp |
Définition of chips
Origin :- early 15c., "to chip" (intransitive, of stone); from Old English forcippian "to pare away by cutting, cut off," verbal form of cipp "small piece of wood" (see chip (n.)). Transitive meaning "to cut up, cut or trim" is from late 15c. Sense of "break off fragments" is 18c. To chip in "contribute" (1861) is American English, perhaps from card-playing. Related: Chipped; chipping. Chipped beef attested from 1826.
- noun substitute for money; money
- Only some chips that I'm saving till mother has her nap out.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- Where we stand now the ground was covered with brush and chips, half hidden by snow.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- My aunt picked up the chips and dumped them into the wood-box.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- "That's quite a stack of chips you're carrying," Sperry observed.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- There was once a shipwright, and he wrought in a Government Yard, and his name was Chips.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- You may believe that all this was very terrible to Chips; but even all this was not the worst.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- He brought in the result of his handiwork, as smiling as a basket of chips.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
- A boy was chopping frozen moose-meat with an axe, and the chips were flying in the snow.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- At such times we made "the Chips" stay over on their side of the yard.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
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