chip up

verb

To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.

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color up
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Meanings

verbchip up (third-person singular simple present chips up, present participle chipping up, simple past and past participle chipped up)

present singular third person chips up · participle present chipping up · participle past chipped up · past chipped up

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.

    It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.

    1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81
  2. card gamesTo exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.

    Synonyms: color up

  3. card gamesTo increase one's amount of chips.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.

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color up
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APA

chip up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chip%20up

MLA

“chip up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chip%20up. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chip up,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chip%20up.

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