chips

chips

1. French fries. Primarily heard in the UK. Primarily heard in UK. I'm going to get some fish and chips—would you like anything?
2. slang Money. I don't make enough chips for a new car right now, so this junker will have to do.
3. slang A carpenter. In this usage, the term is often capitalized and used as form of address. Do you think can build what's on this diagram, Chips?
See also: chip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

chip

n. a bargaining chip. He used his inside info as a chip.

chips

1. n. money. (see also chip.) She saved some chips over the years and bought herself a little place on the beach.
2. n. a carpenter. (Also a term of address.) Tell me, Chips, how fast can you build a coffin?
See also: chip
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • chip
  • up on (one's) ear
  • Two Bob
  • good on (someone)
  • good on you
  • good on you!
  • not a sausage
  • (as) dead as mutton
  • dead as mutton
  • mutton
References in periodicals archive
? The world's largest cod and chips was cooked up and served by Scawsby Fisheries in Doncaster.
Fishy facts on our chip shops
Till that time when we have binagoongang baboy potato chips or sinigang na hipon potato chips, we can in the meantime satisfy our taste buds with the plain slated variety.
A bite out of the local potato chips scene
Neither of these establishments have plans to compete with the big chips producers, insisting they only introduced potato chips to complement their main line of business.
When chips meet innovation
| There are more than 10,000 fish and chip shops in the UK
You're smarter for 10; MARION MCMULLEN gets ready with the salt and vinegar as National Chip Week launches on Monday
In this paper, the commercial finite element software Defrom-2D is adopted to simulate chip breaking during machining using a grooved cutting tool.
Finite element modelling and simulation of chip breaking with grooved tool
The A-series chips will initially appear in systems from five PC makers, with hundreds of designs in the works, Taylor said.
AMD plans to undercut Intel's ultrabook market with $500 alternative using new Trinity chips
During the optimization of the melting practices and process parameters to configure the in-house chip melting system, Pistones Moresa established and documented that for every 8,800 lbs.
Mexican foundry reduces chip melt loss with in-house melting
The Poulson chip includes a record 3.1 billion transistors and will be made using the 32-nanometer process, an improvement from the 65-nm process used to make Tukwila chips.
Intel, IBM to discuss new high-end chips at ISSCC
They have the flavor of classic potato chips, with the taste of oil and salt, but not too much of either.
Test Drive
Some things don't change; perfect chips start with perfect potatoes.
Tuck into the nation's favourite; ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE
Look out for our Two for One Fish & Chips poster in the window of YOUR nearest chippie!
2 FOR 1 fish and chips
IT'S a wrap...the UK's finest chips are served in the North of England, according to a study released yesterday.
Official: The North has the best chips in Britain; ..BUT WE ALL KNEW THAT
And you can celebrate your love of chips - from skinny or chunky to traditional or oven - with pride next week as February 9-15 marks National Chip Week.
Choice chips; food&drink
Fragmentation and crushing the chips are imposed by the necessity to continuously evacuate them with the coolant liquid, in order to avoid their blockage in the evacuation channels of the cutting tool.
Chip forming and forms in milling zinc alloys