- (British English) (also French fry, fry North American English, British English)[usually plural] a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat
- He was eating a burger and chips.
- a bag of chips
- All main courses are served with chips or baked potato.
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda2- All he'll eat is chips.
- I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greasy
- frozen
- oven-ready
- …
- bag
- plate
- eat
- have
- live on
- …
- pan
- shop
- and chips
- with chips
- (also potato chip)(both North American English)(British English crisp, potato crisp)a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods.
- a bag of chips
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- potato
- tortilla
- bag
- chips and dip
- chips and salsa
- (also tortilla chip)a small flat hard piece of food, often like a triangle in shape, made from maize see also corn chip
- = microchip
- computer/graphics/memory chips
- the world's biggest chip maker
- chip technology
Extra Examples- Advances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.
- An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain.
- The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz.
- This computer uses the DX chip.
- This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing.
- a Pentium-compatible chip set
- a chip containing the coding devices
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- silicon
- graphics
- …
- make
- manufacture
- produce
- …
- contain something
- run
- design
- technology
- set
- …
- on a/the chip
- chip and PIN
- the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object
- This mug has a chip in it.
- She had a slight chip off her front tooth.
- a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object
- chips of wood
- chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate)
- The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips.
- a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling
- a poker chip
- (also chip shot)(in golf, football (soccer), etc.) an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance
- She left herself with a short chip to the green.
see also blue-chip
Word OriginMiddle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.
Idioms
See chip in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee chip in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishcash in your chips
- (informal) to die
- He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65.
a chip off the old block
- (informal) a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave
have a chip on your shoulder (about something)
- (informal) to be sensitive about something that happened in the past and become easily offended if it is mentioned because you think that you were treated unfairly
- He has a real chip on his shoulder about not being chosen for the team.
have had your chips
- (British English, informal) to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed
when the chips are down
- (informal) used to refer to a difficult situation in which you are forced to decide what is important to you
- I'm not sure what I'll do when the chips are down.
- When the chips are down he always finds the courage to carry on.
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