Meanings
chips1
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of chip
- slangA carpenter.
I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'
1929, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 144, page 4621 more example
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 […]
1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC
Chips2
- Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.
CHiPs3
- pluralplural of CHiP
CHIPS4
- InternetabbreviationacronymuncountableAcronym of cookies having independent partitioned state.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounstrips of potato fried in deep fat
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with chips
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