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a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. The association with a gambling chip is logical. Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. putting chips into the centre of the table being necessary to continue playing.
Verb. To leave, go. E.g."I've just had a call from Alex; he's waiting for us at the station - we'd better chip." [Orig. Black use]
Chips is slang for a carpenter. Chips is British slang for money.
A small piece of paper, often a request for or granting of permission to do something, such as a "Leave Chit". Also, a place to keep track, as in a "Bar Chit".
Chip together is American slang for to contribute, to cooperate.
Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone's chin with a punch to see if they can take it.
A sailor always serves in a ship, never on a ship.
Car; "Get in the whip and turn left at the next block.".
Chiv is slang for a knife.
Chin-chin-chin refers to the art of stroking one's chi as a gesture of irritation, superiority.
To contribute a share of some expense. [if you can chip in we can go to the Gay Pride day].
Old whip is British naval slang for ship.
Punch someone in the chin/ face, To test someone's chin with a punch to see if they can take it.
Silicon chip is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Japanese person (nip).
Chip was old British slang for a shilling. Chip is slang for a child.Chip is slang for to barrack.Chip is Black American slang for a stolen mobile phone used to make illegal free phone calls.
To chip in is slang for to contribute, as to a fund or to share in the risks or expenses of.
Hip [Hip] Adj. In Style S.S. I like that shirt, it is so hip!
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v. t.
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
n.
A crack or cleft. See Chap.
v. t. & i.
To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
n.
A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
n.
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
v. i.
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
v. t.
A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
n.
Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
interj.
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
v. t.
To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
v. t.
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
v. t.
To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
v. t.
To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
v. t.
To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
v. i.
To embark on a ship.
n.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
v. t.
To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
v. t.
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
v. t.
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
v. t.
To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
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