in the chips

in the chip

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [in stressed th ee chip]
- /ɪn stressed ði tʃɪp/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [in stressed th ee chip]
- /ɪn stressed ði tʃɪp/

Definitions of in the chips words

noun in the chips a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking. 1
noun in the chips a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips. 1
noun in the chips a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip. 1
noun in the chips any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker; counter. 1
noun in the chips Also called microchip. Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed. Compare microprocessor. 1
noun in the chips a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal. 1

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Origin of in the chips

First appearance:

before 1300

One of the 15% oldest English words

1300-50; (noun) Middle English chip (compare Old English cipp plowshare, beam, i.e., piece cut off); (v.) late Middle English chippen (compare Old English -cippian in forcippian to cut off); akin to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch kippen to chip eggs, hatch

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Parts of speech for In the chips

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in the chips popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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