cash in one's chips
To discontinue an activity, accepting whatever gains or losses one has incurred; to give up.
"Looks like these grandees'll have to cash in their chips and quit, but it's a darned shame."
noun
Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]
Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].
Money.
Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through.
An instance of winning a cash prize.
In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
verb
To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted.
To obtain a payout from a tournament.
adj
Great; excellent; cool.