Chips

//t͡ʃɪps// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of chip form-of, plural
  2. 2
    A carpenter. slang

    "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 […]"

  3. 3
    plural of CHiP form-of, plural
  4. 4
    Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
  5. 5
    strips of potato fried in deep fat wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of chip form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.

Synonyms

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bakeheadblack gangbluntboilermanboodlebrass

Example

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"Help yourself to more potato chips."

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potato chips

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