–noun

1.	a person or thing that pokes.

2.	a metal rod for poking or stirring a fire.

–noun

1.	a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.

2.	a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips.

3.	a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip.

4.	any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker; counter.

5.	Also called microchip. Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed. Compare microprocessor.

6.	a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.

7.	anything trivial or worthless.

8.	something dried up or without flavor.

9.	a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips.

10.	wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.

11.	Golf. chip shot.

12.	Tennis. a softly sliced r 236 eturn shot with heavy backspin.

13.	the strip of material removed by a recording stylus as it cuts the grooves in a record.

14.	chips, Chiefly British. French fries.

–verb (used with object)

15.	to hew or cut with an ax, chisel, etc.

16.	to cut, break off, or gouge out (bits or fragments): He chipped a few pieces of ice from the large cube.

17.	to disfigure by breaking off a fragment: to chip the edge of a saucer.

18.	to shape or produce by cutting or flaking away pieces: to chip a figure out of wood.

19.	Games. to bet by means of chips, as in poker.

20.	Tennis. to slice (a ball) on a return shot, causing it to have heavy backspi 5b4 n.

21.	Slang. to take (a narcotic drug) occasionally, esp. only in sufficient quantity to achieve a mild euphoria.

22.	Chiefly British Sports. to hit or kick (a ball) a short distance forward.

23.	British Slang. to jeer or criticize severely; deride; taunt.

24.	Australian. to hoe; harrow.

–verb (used without object)

25.	to break off in small pieces.

26.	Golf. to make a chip shot.

—Verb phrase

27.	chip in, a. to contribute money or assistance; participate. b. Games. to bet a chip or chips, as in poker. c. to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in: We all chipped in with our suggestions for the reunion.

—Idioms

28.	chip off the old block, a person who resembles one parent in appearance or behavior: His son is just a chip off the old block.

29.	c 137 hip on one's shoulder, a disposition to quarrel: You will never make friends if you go around with a chip on your shoulder.

30.	in the chips, Slang. wealthy; rich: Don't look down on your old friends now that you're in the chips.

31.	when the chips are down, in a discouraging or disadvantageous situation; in bad or pressing times: When the chips are down he proves to be a loyal friend.