chips

nounsubstitute for money; money

Synonyms for chips

noun substitute for money; money

money

noun. currency accepted as exchange for goods, services

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "to chip" (intransitive, of stone); from Old English forcippian "to pare away by cutting, cut off," verbal form of cipp "small piece of wood" (see chip (n.)). Transitive meaning "to cut up, cut or trim" is from late 15c. Sense of "break off fragments" is 18c. To chip in "contribute" (1861) is American English, perhaps from card-playing. Related: Chipped; chipping. Chipped beef attested from 1826.

Example Sentences for chips

Only some chips that I'm saving till mother has her nap out.

Where we stand now the ground was covered with brush and chips, half hidden by snow.

My aunt picked up the chips and dumped them into the wood-box.

"That's quite a stack of chips you're carrying," Sperry observed.

You may believe that all this was very terrible to Chips; but even all this was not the worst.

There was once a shipwright, and he wrought in a Government Yard, and his name was Chips.

He brought in the result of his handiwork, as smiling as a basket of chips.

White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.

A boy was chopping frozen moose-meat with an axe, and the chips were flying in the snow.

At such times we made "the Chips" stay over on their side of the yard.

chips

Synonyms for chips

carpenter

coin

dough

excrement

money

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carpenter

coin

dough

excrement

money

Synonyms for chips

French fries