chippy¹ /chipˈi/ (N American)

A flirtatious or promiscuous woman

chip /chip/

1. To strike with small sharp cutting blows
2. To strike or break small pieces off the surface of (also with at)
3. To remove by chipping (often with away or off)
4. To slice or pare
5. To cut as with an adze
6. To chaff, tease (informal)

1. To become chipped
2. To play a chip shot

1. An act of chipping
2. A piece chipped off, esp a flattish fragment
3. A small fragment of stone (also chippˈing)
4. A surface flaw or mark left when a small piece has been broken off
5. A thin slice or small piece of food, eg fruit
6. A potato-chip
7. A potato crisp (N American)
8. A thin strip of wood, used for making boxes, baskets, etc
9. A basket or container made in this way
10. A small, flat piece of wood, plastic, etc used to represent money in certain games
11. 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)
12. A piece of money (slang)
13. A piece of dried dung of cow or bison
14. A hit or kick which sends a ball high into the air over a short distance (sport)
15. A chip shot (golf)
16. A key on a musical instrument (archaic)

chippˈer noun

1. A device that makes chips
2. A chip shop (Irish inf)

chippˈie noun (NZ)

A potato crisp

chippˈing noun

chippˈy adjective

1. Abounding in chips
2. Dry as a chip
3. Seedy from taking too much alcohol
4. Touchy, quarrelsome, aggressive (Can informal)
5. Having a chip on one's shoulder (see below; informal)

1. (also chippˈie) (a meal from) a chip shop (informal)
2. See also chips and separate entry chippy¹

chips noun (slang)

1. A carpenter (also chippˈy)
2. A regimental pioneer sergeant, usu a carpenter
3. Money

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

1. A fruit basket of interwoven chips
2. A metal basket in which potato-chips are placed for frying

chipˈboard noun

1. Reconstructed wood made by consolidation of chips from woodland trimmings, workshop waste, etc, with added resin
2. 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

1. To enter the game by putting chips on the table (gambling)
2. To interpose
3. 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

1. An aggressively defiant manner, as if daring anyone to knock it off
2. Sensitivity or readiness to take offence, usu about a supposed fault or weakness in one's personality or background
3. Bitterness, grievance

have had one's chips

1. To have died
2. To have had and lost one's chance
3. To have been beaten

when the chips are down

At a moment of crisis or critically important time

• unobtrusively
• unobtrusiveness
• unobtrusivenesses
• unobvious
• unoccupied
• unoffended
• unoffending
• unoffensive
• unoffered
• unofficered
• unofficial
• unofficially
• unofficious
• unoften
• unoiled
• unopened
• unoperative
• unopposed
• unoppressive
• unordained
• unorder
• unordered
• unordering
• unorderly
• unorders