white chip

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white chip

noun white chips

  1. A poker chip of low value.

    Opposite: blue chip

  2. figuratively Anything of little significance or worth. he refused an interim appointment as United States senator — Senator Nixon had died in office — because he did not want to be “just a white chip — a nobody – in Washington.

    Similar: red cent, small potatoes, bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, inconsequential, flamfew, flyspeck

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@misc{white_chip_2026,
  title = {white chip},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/white%20chip},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}