chip
107
3.4
- noun
- /tʃɪp/
:
ficha
- She exchanged her cash for chips before heading to the blackjack table.
- place chips
- red chips
- three chips
Like I'm holding on to my chips while I talk to you.
- Like I'm holding on to my chips while I talk to you.
- And that process of taking risk because you have to risk the chips to get more chips.
- Well, we pump this thing for growth and we put all our chips on red and we go.
- Well, the time to buy, the time to put all your chips in the game.
- Meaning like you're all in, all of your chips are into this book.
Examples
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Jani places her last bet, glances at the mountain of chips in front of Mr. Tchai.
Fiction book (1998) -
You might want to start by betting a little more than just one chip.
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"Now let me cash in my chips, and then let's go to bed."
Fiction book (1991) -
Hell, he had so many poker chips, he was giving them away.
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Each of them had a stack of plastic chips on the table.
Fiction book (1998) -
They were simply playing cards for a mountain of chips worth their weight in gold.
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Around the table, the punters move their chips onto numbers, lines, and colors.
Fiction book (1998) -
She's made so much money for the table that the winners toss chips in her direction.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the casino, my friend won a huge stack of chips during the poker game.
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After losing all his chips, he decided to take a break from gambling.
Synonyms
4
3.0
A small round disk that stands for money in card games like poker
3
6.5
A poker chip with the most value in a game
1
4.1
A small gambling piece worth the lowest amount in a poker game
Idioms
- Informal
7
4.4
A person who is very like one of their parents in looks or behaviour
- Informal
Strong anger or hurt about being treated unfairly in the past
Compounds
- Specialized
4
4.1
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
- Specialized
3
3.7
A small, flat piece of material with tiny electronic parts that makes computers and phones work
- Specialized
1
6.1
A short low golf shot that makes the ball run along the ground toward the hole
- Specialized
1
4.4
An electronic device put in the brain that records and plays back a person's past events or feelings
- Specialized
1
4.4
A small electronic part inside a device that controls its actions and calculations
- Specialized
A small device with many tiny DNA pieces that tests many genes in a sample
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Chip for a gambling token comes from the old sense 'small piece' because the tokens were small pieces used at the table to stand for real money.