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blue chips

blue chips is the plural of blue chip.

Meaning of blue chip

Noun

blue chip (plural blue chips)

  1. A high-value poker chip.
    Antonyms:
    white chip
  2. A stock or other investment that has a high price because of its perceived reliability.
    • Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too.2000 August 10, “The price is wrong”, in The Economist, →ISSN
  3. Synonym of blue-chipper.
    Synonyms:
    blue-chipper

Questions about blue chips

What is blue chips the plural of?
Blue chips is the plural of blue chip.

Words near blue chips in the dictionary

  1. blue cheese dressing
  2. blue cheeses
  3. Blue China
  4. blue chip
  5. blue chip swap
  6. blue chips
  7. blue circle rate
  8. blue circle rates
  9. blue cod
  10. blue code
  11. blue code of silence

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