<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.</li><li>a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips.</li><li>a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.</li><li>anything trivial or worthless.</li><li>something dried up or without flavor.</li><li>a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips.</li><li>wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.</li><li>Golf. chip shot.</li><li>Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.</li><li>the strip of material removed by a recording stylus as it cuts the grooves in a record.</li><li>chips, Chiefly British. French fries.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.</li><li>to cut, break off, or gouge out (bits or fragments): He chipped a few pieces of ice from the large cube.</li><li>to disfigure by breaking off a fragment: to chip the edge of a saucer.</li><li>to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces: to chip a figure out of wood.</li><li>Games. to bet by means of chips, as in poker.</li><li>Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, causing it to have heavy backspin.</li><li>Slang. to take (a narcotic drug) occasionally, especially only in sufficient quantity to achieve a mild euphoria.</li><li>Chiefly British Sports. to hit or kick (a ball) a short distance forward.</li><li>British Slang. to jeer or criticize severely; deride; taunt.</li><li>Australian. to hoe; harrow.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to break off in small pieces.</li><li>Golf. to make a chip shot.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to contribute money or assistance; participate.</li><li>Games. to bet a chip or chips, as in poker.</li><li>to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in: We all chipped in with our suggestions for the reunion.</li></ul>