have had one's chips

verb

To be dead or finished.

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Meanings

verbhave had one's chips (third-person singular simple present has had one's chips, present participle having had one's chips, simple past and past participle had had one's chips)

present singular third person has had one's chips · participle present having had one's chips · participle past had had one's chips · past had had one's chips

  1. idiomaticTo be dead or finished.

    He must have had his chips, she thought, and our children will be born fatherless.

    2005, Edward Blishen, Kingfisher Treasury of Super Cool Stories, page 118
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