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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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chips

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verb

present tense third-person singular of chip
as in slices

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Recent Examples of chips
Noun
Training and operating a leading model requires immense spending on chips, data centers, energy, networking, research staff and global distribution. — Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Water intake did not differ significantly between the mild and spicy conditions in the 2026 chips and salsa study. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026 Protein is everywhere Protein is now added to lattes, cereal, chips, ramen, and many other foods that were never traditionally marketed as protein-rich. — ABC News, 31 July 2026 The tech giant reported a record profit for the spring and said demand for its chips continues to outpace supply, but its earnings nevertheless fell shy of analysts’ high expectations. — Stan Choe, Fortune, 31 July 2026 Meanwhile, Nvidia makes the chips and developer tools that power AI. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 July 2026 Cameron Young chips onto the eighth green during the first round of the Rocket Classic golf tournament at the Detroit Golf Club, Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Detroit. — CBS News, 31 July 2026 In April, Amazon and Anthropic set a 10-year, $100 billion deal to run Anthropic’s large language models (LLMs) on Amazon Web Services’ Trainium chips. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 July 2026 The outlook underscores Intel’s gains with data center customers, which are clamoring for chips to satisfy demand for artificial intelligence computing. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 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
  • There is no Florida law that requires a business to accept cash.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 28 July 2026
  • While hardware is still its bread and butter, the company is investing significant amounts of resources and cash into growing a wider healthcare ecosystem.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 28 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
  • Villa’s desire to address this position has grown in prominence over the summer, with Jadon Sancho’s loan ending, Evann Guessand and Leon Bailey available to leave and Villa having the money to spend from Rogers’ sale.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Georgia voters should look twice before donating money to candidates this election season.
    — Sophia Eppley, AJC.com, 22 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
  • Cooper won a coin toss and received Bueckers, the leader in fan votes.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 July 2026
  • Peak Design previously made a card-sized location tracking device (similar to an AirTag), and it's now shrunk that down to a coin-sized version that fits in the baseplate.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Definition of coin
Verb
  • Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of mashes
Noun
  • Between it and the wireless mic, the extra hundred-ish bucks for the Vlog Combo is more than justified.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026
  • Names For July’s Full Moon The Buck Moon name is a reference to the antlers of male deer (bucks), which are in full growth in July in North America.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of bucks
Noun
  • The cash is converted to crypto currency and transferred to criminals - sometimes in just seconds.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • If the disruption lasts, Russia could choke off a crucial source of foreign currency for Ukraine and boost Russia’s international negotiating leverage by inflicting pain on major grain importers in Africa and Asia.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 31 July 2026
Definition of currency

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“Chips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chips. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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