Pronunciations (2)
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/t͡ʃɪps/
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tʃɪps
Noun
Money.
Usage- Archaic
- Slang
Noun
A carpenter.
Usage- Slang
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But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […]
I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'
Noun
strips of potato fried in deep fat
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