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chip
verb- to use drugs occasionally or irregularly US
Applied to all narcotics but especially heroin. - Well, all the studs I knew was on stuff now, and their habits was a good mile long / but I thought I could chip and never get hooked, for my will was strong. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 91, 1964
- He was only “chipping,” using drugs occasionally when they were handy, and had not yet acquired a habit. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 29, 1966
- Prince whistled. “He sure ain’t chippin’ then. That’s a goddamn oil-burner.” — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 128, 1977
- I don’t mind chipping when I know I’m chipping–that was what we called just biting off a corner of a tab just for the buzz. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tales, p. 20, 1980
- to depart, to go UK
- Well, Lloyd, gotta chip, man. I said I’d meet Sharron at six. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 122, 1994
- She hung about tryin to sort him but he weren’t havin it so she chipped. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 176, 2000
- to find fault with someone; to reprimand someone AUSTRALIA, 1915
- — Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, p. 59, 1961
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 22, 1977
- One time, that head stockman, Doug Houghton, chipped this bloke who’d come from another station–he never used to wash[.] — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 93, 1994
- in shuffleboard, to barely touch another disc US
- — Omero C. Catan, Secrets of Shuffleboard Strategy, p. 65, 1967
▶ chip the ivories
to take part in casual conversation US, 1945- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 102, 1960
▶ chip your teeth- to become very angry US
- — American Speech, p. 268, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- to talk incessantly US
- Okay, okay, quit chipping your teeth. You complain more than any kid I ever saw. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 252, 1973
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