chips

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪps/

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• Rhymes: -ɪps

chips

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chip

chips

1. plural of chip
2. (slang, archaic) Money.

• (money): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

chips (plural chips)

1. (slang) A carpenter.
   • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

     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 […]

   • 1929, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 144, page 462:

     I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'

• brother chip

• SCHIP

From English chips.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɕib̥s]

chips pl (plural definite chipsene)

1. potato chips, crisps

   Synonym: franske kartofler

• “chips” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English chips.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪps/, (rare, especially for the interjection) /tʃɪps/

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• Hyphenation: chips
• Rhymes: -ɪps

chips

1. potato chips, crisps

chips

1. shoot; minced oath for Dutch shit

• IPA^(key): /tʃɪps/
• Hyphenation: chips
• Rhymes: -ɪps

chips

1. plural of chip

From English chips.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃips/, [ˈʃips̠]
• Rhymes: -ips

chips (uncommon)

1. (anglicism) potato chips

• perunalastut
• sipsit

• “chips”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from English chips.

• IPA^(key): /ʃips/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tʃip/

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chips f or m or m pl (sometimes plural only, in variation, invariable)

1. (Anglicism) chips (American English), crisps (British English)
   • 2006 November 21, “Regard [Glare]”, in デスノート [Death Note], spoken by Light Yagami (Alexis Tomassian), Nice Fellow, via MCM:

     Puis je prends une chips, que je mange!

     Then I'll take a chip, which I'll eat!

• Feminine in France, masculine in Belgium and masculine plural in some older dictionaries.

• “chips”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃips]
• Hyphenation: chips
• Rhymes: -ips

chips (plural chipsek)

1. alternative form of csipsz

• chips in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

• czips

Unadapted borrowing from American English chips.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʂips/

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• Rhymes: -ips
• Syllabification: chips

chips m inan

1. chip (American English), crisp (British English)

• “chips”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “chips”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

chips m pl (plural only)

1. chips (thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags)
2. plural of chip

Borrowed from English chips.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃips/

chips n (plural chipsuri)

1. chip (American English), crisp (British English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃibs/ [ˈt͡ʃiβ̞s]
• Rhymes: -ibs
• Syllabification: chips

chips m pl

1. plural of chip

chips class IX (plural chips class X)

1. clipping of chipsi (“chips”)

Borrowed from English chips.

• IPA^(key): /ɕɪps/

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chips n

1. (US) a chip, (UK) a crisp
   1. (in the (identical) plural) (US) chips, (UK) crisps

• chipspåse (“bag of (US) chips / (UK) crisps”)
• potatischips (“(US) potato chips, (UK) potato crisps”)

• dipp
• knapra
• pommes frites (“(US) french fries, (UK) chips”)

• “chips”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “chips”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)