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noun

plural of chip
as in cash
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment was in the chips after hitting it big in the lottery

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chip
as in slices

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Recent Examples of chips
Noun
Its chips are particularly well-suited for the increasing inference segment of AI, offering energy efficiency and bypassing critical manufacturing bottlenecks. — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Technology giant Apple recently announced an increase in prices for Macs and iPads because of the jump in price for memory chips. — ABC News, 10 July 2026 Holograms replace layers The printing process is based on photolithography, a manufacturing technique widely used to fabricate semiconductor chips. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026 Guests get wooden chips to trade in for liquor at the whiskey-centric bar. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026 City Works, in the Shops at Clearfork, will offer a $29 three-course lunch menu featuring burgers, salads, wraps, bowls, chicken piccata, fish-and-chips or smoked meatloaf, with peanut-butter Snickers pie for dessert. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026 Pasricha suggests roasted chickpeas as a fiber-rich swap for a salty snack like pretzels or chips. — Sarah Klein, Time, 10 July 2026 Ready in about 30 minutes, these bars are extra moist thanks to sour cream, and are filled with chocolate chips. — Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 10 July 2026 Khloud by Khloé Kardashian protein popcorn and chips Khloé Kardashian’s brand, Khloud, leans into snackable formats. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson july 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chips
  1. cash
  2. slices
  3. money
  4. chops
  5. coin
  6. mashes
  7. bucks
  8. currency
Noun
  • If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will keep ticking up.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • There’s enough cash on hand for Rhaenyra to administer the Seven Kingdoms for a fortnight, and no one remaining from the old regime — not Alicent, not Orwyle — knows where Lannister hid the rest of the ingots.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 July 2026
Definition of cash
Verb
  • Driven by revenge and madness, Sweeney Todd slices necks he is meant to just shave.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Her foot slices down the side of the ball.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of slices
Noun
  • Well, not bad in terms of trying to showcase how much money Europe is spending on its own defense, with a raft of billion-dollar deals announced with some of the world's largest military contractors.
    — Steve Sedgwick,Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • What begins as a history play transforms into a sharp-eyed satire about the cost of assimilation in a society where money, power and white privilege remain stubbornly intertwined.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of money
Verb
  • Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.
    — JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of chops
Noun
  • That’s not to mention an upcoming summer of local and national festivities that promises fireworks, parades, bands, speeches, prizes, and commemorative everything, from postage stamps and coins to musical compositions.
    — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • Now, the new Heritage Coin collection takes the original coin watch to all new heights – but exclusive ones.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of coin
Verb
  • The Nike Air Max Joga Bonito R9 mashes up the boot Ronaldo wore for the 1998 World Cup with the Air Max 95.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 22 June 2026
  • Set to John Philip Sousa military marches, the zany spectacle mashes up a night at the Moulin Rouge with a Busby Berkeley extravaganza.
    — Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
Definition of mashes
Noun
  • Beer, soda, hot dogs, pretzels, and more are all just five bucks each.
    — James McClellan, Curbed, 10 July 2026
  • The wide-open scam enriched Haitian freeloaders as Bonheur personally netted a million bucks in just two years after Joe Biden rang the dinner bell for every grifter in the Third World.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026
Definition of bucks
Noun
  • Requirements are the key element of a NASA planning document like this, the bureaucratic currency by which NASA buys off on the safety of a spacecraft, such as the amount of habitable volume the agency requires.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
  • Merzbacher, who generated his fortune through a fur business and currency trading, gained many of the artworks in his possession through his grandfather-in-law, Bernhard Mayer.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of currency

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