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Chips

/tʃɪps/

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

📖 Definitions of "Chips"

noun

1
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
2
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
"This cup has a chip in it."
3
(games) A token used in place of cash.
4
A sovereign (the coin).

verb

1
To chop or cut into small pieces.
"The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch."
2
To break small pieces from.
"Be careful not to chip the paint."
3
To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
4
To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.

noun

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
splinteringnoun	The process or result of something being splintered.
flakenoun	A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
scrapnoun	(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
cracknoun	A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
crispnoun	Senses relating to something brittle.
flecknoun	A small spot or streak; a speckle.
cut offnoun	Alternative form of cutoff. [The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.]
break offverb	(transitive) To discontinue abruptly.
come offverb	To have some success; to succeed.
break awayverb	To become separated, literally or figuratively.
cow chipnoun	A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
buffalo chipnoun	(US) A dried piece of buffalo or bison dung, sometimes used as fuel.
bitnoun	(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
nicknoun	A small cut in a surface.
knapnoun	A sudden, sharp blow, knock, or slap; a rap, a whack.
silicon chipnoun	A wafer of silicon on which an integrated circuit has been built; a microchip
microchipnoun	An integrated circuit.
potato chipnoun	(Canada, US, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, New Zealand) A potato crisp, a thin slice of potato that has been fried.
saratoga chipnoun	(US, dated) A potato chip.
poker chipnoun	(gambling) A disk-shaped counter that is used when gambling to represent money.