chip

• small piece; splinter; game token;(british) french fry; piece of food thinly sliced and fried; microchip, tiny square of semiconducting material containing miniature transistors and other electronic components (electronics)
cut a fragment from, flake; be broken off in small pieces; sculpt, engrave
in britain, chips are long, thin pieces of fried potato.
in the united states, chips or potato chips are very thin slices of potato that have been fried until they are hard and crunchy.
a chip or silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon with electric circuits on it which is part of a computer.
when you chip something, you accidentally damage it by breaking a small piece off it.
chips are also small pieces which have been broken off something.
if someone has a chip on their shoulder, they behave rudely and aggressively because they feel they have been treated unfairly; an informal expression.
if you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you make it weaker or less likely to succeed than it was before by a series of repeated efforts.
when a number of people chip in, each person gives some money so that they can pay for something together; an informal expression.
when someone chips in during a conversation, they interrupt it; an informal expression.