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chips

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chipsnoun

    strips of potato fried in deep fat

Wiktionary

  1. chipsnoun

    french fried potatoes; french fries.

  2. chipsnoun

    Thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags; potato chips, nacho chips, etc.

    What kind of chips should we get, barbeque or sour cream and onion?

Wikipedia

  1. CHiPs

    CHiPs is an American crime drama television series created by Rick Rosner and originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to May 1, 1983. It follows the lives of two motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons, plus one reunion television film in October 1998.

ChatGPT

  1. chips

    Chips are thin, often crispy, pieces of food that have been baked, fried, or dried. They are usually made from potatoes, but can also be made from various other food products such as corn, vegetables, fruits, grains, or even chocolate. Chips are commonly salted and are considered a type of snack food. They come in various flavors and forms, including potato chips, tortilla chips, veggie chips, nacho chips, chocolate chips, and poker chips.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chipsnoun

    a ship's carpenter

Wikidata

  1. CHiPs

    CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol. The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. chips

    The familiar soubriquet of the carpenter on board ship. The fragments of timber and the planings of plank are included among chips.--Chip of the old block, a son like his father.

Rap Dictionary

  1. chipsnoun

    Cash, money or bills. From casino chips. "I'm a be rich surrounded by chips" -- Lil Bow Wow (Bounce with me).

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CHIPS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chips is ranked #120187 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Chips surname appeared 144 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Chips.

    69.4% or 100 total occurrences were White.
    18.7% or 27 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    4.8% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.4% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
    3.4% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'chips' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1705

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chips in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chips in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of chips in a Sentence

  1. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

    I believe that chips should be manufactured in the European Union, that European Union should have European Union own hyperscalers and that it should be possible to produce battery cells.

  2. Jay Gambetta:

    With our new NanoStack architecture, we're not just making smaller transistors, we're reinventing how chips are built to deliver dramatically more power and energy efficiency.

  3. Herrera Beutler:

    A ruthless mob that uses violence to stop the Constitutionally-mandated counting of electoral votes is an attack on the U.S. Constitution itself. The President either wanted the mob he helped mobilize to take these steps, or he didn't care enough about his job responsibilities to try to stop them as they hunted down his Vice President and beat Capitol police officers; either way, it's impeachable. Let the political chips fall where they may.

  4. Andrew Crook:

    We're busy producing fish and chips - that's what we came into the industry for - and you spend more and more of your time filling out forms and making sure you're compliant.

  5. Rod Rosenstein:

    Hiding from tough questions about these controversial cases is no way to reassure the public, if the department is afraid of independent oversight, that just reinforces people’s suspicions and skepticism. The only real way to reassure people is to let the sun shine in and let the chips fall where they may.

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Translations for chips

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  • papas fritasSpanish
  • chipsFrench
  • चिप्सHindi
  • The word "chips" can be translated to Portuguese as "chips" when referring to potato chips. However, if you are referring to "chips" in the context of electronic chips or components, you would use "chips" as well. If you meant "fries" (as in FrenchPortuguese
  • cipsTurkish

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