Chip Small Tʃɪp Piece Wood Baked Broken Noun

• this mug has a chip in it.
• chips of wood
• chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
• all main courses are served with chips or baked potato.

chip

1. the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object
• This mug has a chip in it.
2. a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object
• chips of wood
• chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
3. 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
• All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
4. a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and have many different flavours.
• = tortilla chip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tortilla-chip
• = microchip
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/microchip_1
• chip technology
5. a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling
• The release of prisoners was used as a bargaining chip.
6. an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance
• See related entries: Soccer
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/soccer/chip_1
• She left herself with a short chip to the green.
7. to die
• He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65.
8. a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave
9. 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.
10. to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed
11. 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.

Extra Examples

• Advances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.
• All he’ll eat is chips.
• An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain.
• I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans.
• 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
• fish and chips
• She had a slight chip off her front tooth.
• The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips.

Word Origin

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