Meanings
plural blue chips
- businessA stock or other investment that has a high price because of its perceived reliability.
Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too.
2000 August 10, “The price is wrong”, in The Economist, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA high-value poker chip.
nounSynonym of blue-chipper.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Finance and figurative senses from poker.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
blue chip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue%20chip
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