poker chip
- noun
- /ˈpoʊkər ʧɪp/
- What you don't know about poker chips in casinos is that they sound a specific way.
- stack of poker chips
What you don't know about poker chips in casinos is that they sound a specific way.
- What you don't know about poker chips in casinos is that they sound a specific way.
Examples
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Don't you want custody of the poker chips, too?
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Also, in the kitchen, there was a drawer full of playing cards and poker chips
Fiction book (2000) -
Is that a poker chip?
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And they made me a set of poker chips of my home game amounts.
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And I swear, he had the biggest pile of poker chips in front him I had ever seen.
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There were poker chips and card decks in one of the drawers upstairs, and he brought them down and put them on the table.
Fiction book (1998) -
I've grown fond of using poker chips to represent the accumulation of wealth in my campaign.
Blog text (31) -
Through the thin wall between them and the casino, he can hear clicking poker chips, the whir of balls in roulette wheels.
Fiction book (2002) -
The rimmed ship's table held a kerosene lamp, a deck of cards, poker chips, and a duck call wound by a leather thong.
Fiction book (1999) -
During the poker game, each player received a stack of poker chips to place their bets.
Synonyms
A small flat round token used at gambling tables to represent money
A poker chip with the most value in a game
A small gambling piece worth the lowest amount in a poker game
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'poker' (the gambling game) + 'chip' (a flat token representing money), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it is the token used in poker. This simple noun+noun compound follows common naming patterns and is cross-linguistically obvious, making it transparent.
Etymology
Poker chip comes from the small, flat tokens used in the card game poker, where a chip is a little piece that stands for 'money'. Because players put these tokens on the table to make a 'bet' and count their winnings, poker chip now means a round token used to show money in the game.