chips
plural of chip
Noun form of, plural
- plural of chip
- Money.
Noun slang
- A carpenter.
- But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […] -...
- I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.' - 1929, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 144, page 462:
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Verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of chip