DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. Chips

• chip [countable]
• 1

  food

• a) British English [usually plural] a long thin piece of potato cooked in oil [= French fry American English]
• fish and chips
• a bag of chips
• b) American English [usually plural] a thin flat round piece of food such as potato cooked in very hot oil and eaten cold [= crisp British English]
• a bag of potato chips
• 2

  computer

  a small piece of silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and process information in computers:
• the age of the silicon chip
• chip technology
• 3

  piece

  a small piece of wood, stone, metal etc that has been broken off something:
• Wood chips covered the floor of the workshop.
• a chocolate chip cookie (=one that contains small pieces of chocolate)
• 4

  mark

  a small hole or mark on a plate, cup etc where a piece has broken off
• chip in
• There's a chip in this bowl.
• 5

   have a chip on your shoulder

  to easily become offended or angry because you think you have been treated unfairly in the past
• 6

   when the chips are down

  spoken in a serious or difficult situation, especially one in which you realize what is really true or important:
• When the chips are down, you've only got yourself to depend on.
• 7

   be a chip off the old block

  informal to be very similar to your mother or father in appearance or character
• 8

  game

   [usually plural] a small flat coloured piece of plastic used in games such as poker or blackjack to represent a particular amount of money
• 9

  sport

  also chip shot, chip kick a hit in golf, or a kick in football orrugby, that makes the ball go high into the air for a short distance
• 10

   have had your chips

  British English informal to be in a situation in which you no longer have any hope of improvement
• ➔ blue chip

   ; ➔ cash in your chips

   at cash in (3)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.