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noun (usually chips) long thin piece of fried potato ADJ. greasy | frozen, oven-ready QUANT. bag, plate VERB + CHIP eat, have All he'll eat is chips. | live on I never cook anything grand?we live on chips and baked beans. | cook, fry CHIP + NOUN pan | shop PHRASES and/with chips fish and chipsFOOD microchip ADJ. computer, silicon | graphics, memory, microprocessor VERB + CHIP make, manufacture, produce | design, develop | use This computer uses the DX chip. CHIP + VERB contain sth a chip containing the coding devices CHIP + NOUN design, technology | set a Pentium-compatible chip set PREP. on a/the ~ Advances in chip technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.COMPUTER, verb ADV. badly She fell and chipped her tooth quite badly. | away He was chipping away at the stone. (figurative) They chipped away at the power of the government (= gradually made it weaker). PREP. off We chipped the paint off the wood.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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chip in
mainly UK informal
to interrupt a conversation in order to say something
• I'll start and you can all chip in with your comments., chip (sth) in
[ M ] informal
to give some money when several people are giving money to pay for something together
• They all chipped in fifty pounds and bought their mother a trip to Greece.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs