ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chips

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /t͡ʃɪps/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Chips is a verb meaning third-person singular simple present indicative of chip.

Meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of chip.

More Meanings

  1. plural of chip
  2. (slang) A carpenter.

Example Sentences

I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'
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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Related dictionary entries include splintering, flake, scrap, crack, crisp, cut off.

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