The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chip \Chip\, n.
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
One of the counters used in poker and other games.
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(Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo.
Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape.
Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3.
A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.]
--Milton.Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.
Wiktionary
n. (potato chip English)
Usage examples of "potato chips".
For all he knows, she eats potato chips with human ears, the way other people eat them with pretzels on the side, or with peanuts, or with sour-cream dip.
Herbie carried a knapsack on his back, and after he had shuffled obsequiously past Pacheco with his arm upraised to avoid the flurry of pebbles from Mercedes Rael, he ferreted nervously among Nick's wares, loading up on corned beef hash, bean dip, potato chips, powdered milk, and the like, all of which he would lug home in the mildewed knapsack.