WordNet
v. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark" [syn: carve]
Usage examples of "chip at".
While you were fishing yesterday morning, whoever was maintaining this 'safe house' panicked and dropped Chip at the hospital.
I've got twenty million in my account I can't use, a code I can't access, and no chip at all.
Aoife was squatting on the floor, feeding the cookfire, one chip at a time.
And the chips are good anytime-you could go cash 'em in, one chip at a time, and nobody'd know any better.
On the monitor screen he was seeing not a hugely magnified quantum chip at all but a roulette table marked off with numbered squares.
A Tennessee warbler landed suddenly on Marmie's wooden grave marker, ruffled its bright green back and sang chip, chip, chip-chip-chip at him.