Talk:chip

Wood chips

What about a better definition for wood chips (and include a photo). A translation into Spanish: astillas . --193.145.201.53 09:59, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Check the entry for woodchip. --Hekaheka 13:34, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

To chip in

The example here says it's usually with "in", and suggests "I'll chip 50p". I've only ever heard "chip in", not "chip" alone. Can someone confirm the "chip" form? Equinox ◑ 11:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

"I'll chip 50p" sounds very wrong to me. Maybe its just a typo. SpinningSpark 00:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

I see you've changed the usage example to "chip in". But if it always takes in, we shouldn't give it a sense line under chip alone. Equinox ◑ 23:44, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Maybe. All I know is that the usex given sounds completley wrong and as this discussion didn't seem to be going anywhere I changed it for one that sounded right. SpinningSpark 23:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Also to cheep, as a bird does?

Just found this. Is it a general sense, or a nonce usage?

• 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (page 46)

  At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

Equinox ◑ 14:57, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Also some kind of class of wrestling moves (obsolete)

e.g. in a section describing various "chips", there is this one about buttocking:

• 1889, Walter Armstrong, Wrestling (page 199)

  It is a chip, however, always fraught with peril, as the slack hold of the buttocker, if he misses his aim, enables his opponent to gain a firmer grip, which he is certain to make the best use of in the commanding position in which he finds himself.

Equinox ◑ 22:13, 27 December 2022 (UTC)