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poker chip

poker chip

4 3.0
A small round disk that stands for money in card games like poker
  • noun
  • /ˈpoʊkər ʧɪp/
translation icon : ficha de póker
  • 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.

Examples

  • Don't you want custody of the poker chips, too?

  • Also, in the kitchen, there was a drawer full of playing cards and poker chips

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Is that a poker chip?

  • And they made me a set of poker chips of my home game amounts.

  • And I swear, he had the biggest pile of poker chips in front him I had ever seen.

  • 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

chip
vspoker chip
107 3.4

A small flat round token used at gambling tables to represent money

is the same but highlights use especially in one card game
blue chip
vspoker chip
3 6.5

A poker chip with the most value in a game

is the general token used to represent money across different values
white chip
vspoker chip
1 4.1

A small gambling piece worth the lowest amount in a poker game

is the general token used to represent money across different values

How Valuable

blue chip
3 6.5
poker chip
4 3.0
white chip
1 4.1

Surface Forms

poker chip singular
poker chips plural

Morphology

poker + chip

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.