chip

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

This cup has a chip in it.

A token used in place of cash.

If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.

A medallion.

AA chips showing duration of abstinence (6 months)

A sovereign (the coin).

To chop or cut into small pieces.

The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.

Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).

To break small pieces from.

Be careful not to chip the paint.

To become chipped.

This varnish chips easily.

To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).

The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.

To use a chisel.

The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.

To leave.

‘Lloyd, I’m gonna chip.’ ‘You just got here!’ ‘I know–but I gotta chip. Got shit to do.’