Chip Piece Small Tʃɪp Bag Baked Made Broken

• he was eating a burger and chips.
• a bag of chips
• all main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
• a bag of chips

chip

1. a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat
• SEE ALSO fish and chips
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fish-and-chips
• He was eating a burger and chips.
• a bag of chips
• All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.

Extra Examples

• All he'll eat is chips.
• I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans.
2. a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods.
• a bag of chips
3. a small flat hard piece of food, often like a triangle in shape, made from maize
• SEE ALSO corn chip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/corn-chip
• = microchip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/microchip_2
• computer/graphics/memory chips
• the world's biggest chip maker
• chip technology

Extra Examples

• Advances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.
• An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain.
• The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz.
• This computer uses the DX chip.
• This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing.
• a Pentium-compatible chip set
• a chip containing the coding devices
4. the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object
• SEE ALSO paint chip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/paint-chip
• This mug has a chip in it.
• She had a slight chip off her front tooth.
5. a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object
• SEE ALSO cow chip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cow-chip
• chips of wood
• chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
• The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips.
6. a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling
• SEE ALSO bargaining chip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bargaining-chip
• a poker chip
7. an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance
• She left herself with a short chip to the green.
8. to die
• He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65.
9. a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave
10. to be sensitive about something that happened in the past and become easily offended if it is mentioned because you think that you were treated unfairly
• He has a real chip on his shoulder about being adopted.
11. to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed
12. used to refer to a difficult situation in which you are forced to decide what is important to you
• I'm not sure what I'll do when the chips are down.
• When the chips are down he always finds the courage to carry on.

Word Origin

• Middle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.