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chips¹

  • /t͡ʃɪps/

Rhymes with -ɪps

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of chip

noun

  1. plural plural of chip
  2. archaic, slang Money.

noun chips

  1. slang A carpenter. But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […]

Chips²

proper noun

  1. Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.

CHiPs³

noun

  1. plural plural of CHiP

CHIPS⁴

noun

  1. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: splintering, flake, scrap, crack, crisp, fleck, cut off, break off, come off, break away, cow chip, buffalo chip, bit, nick, knap, silicon chip

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"chips." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chips. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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chips. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/chips

Chicago

"chips." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/chips.

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@misc{chips_2026,
  title = {chips},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chips},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}