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chips
noun- money US, 1840
- So when the big day rolled around I spent my last chips on a taxi. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 152, 1946
- Nay, old dude, I don’t need chips. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 41, 1973
- the action of looking out or serving as a watchman SOUTH AFRICA, 2002
If a school boy is smoking a cigarette in the toilet, his friend will “keep chips” for him.
▷ see:CHIBS▶ get your chips
to be dismissed from employment UK▶ have had your chips
to have been beaten; to be finished or utterly defeated; to have been killed UK, 1959
Ultimately from gambling symbolism.- In 1997 Enfield Southgate told Michael Portillo he’d had his chips. — Vote 2001, BBCi, 1 June 2001
▶ have your chips
to be ruined UK, 1959
Except [Sarel] Burger had made only 5. Oh well, he’s had his chips now[.].- — Guardian, 19 February 2003
▶ in the chips- well funded US, 1842
- If you’re in the chips and Burroughs feels good, all three of you could come out here for kicks sometime. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 115, 26 August 1947
- in poker, winning US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 47, 1988
▶ when the chips are down
at the crucial moment US, 1943- When the chips are down you play safe. When the blue chips are down you go to war. — The Observer, 16 March 2003
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