What does chips mean?
Chips means third-person singular simple present indicative of chip.
/t͡ʃɪps/ · verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of chip.
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 […]
I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'
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Chips means third-person singular simple present indicative of chip.
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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 […]
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