chip
/t͡ʃɪp/ verb C2- To chop or cut into small pieces. · The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
- To break small pieces from. · Be careful not to chip the paint.
- To become chipped. · This varnish chips easily.
- To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact. · In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.
- To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
He/she/it chips · Past chipped · Past participle chipped · -ing form chipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- chip
- He/she/it
- chips
- Past
- chipped
- Past participle
- chipped
- -ing form
- chipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
There was a glass of water on the table, and on the window-sill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills.”
Chip, and upspringing
Delia Caruthers did things in six octaves so promisingly in a pine-tree village in the South that her relatives chipped in enough in her chip hat for her to go “North” and “finish.” They could not see her f—, but that is our story.
And then Anthony Rockwall, who never cared for bells, went to the door of his library and shouted “Mike!” in the same voice that had once chipped off pieces of the welkin on the Kansas prairies.
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