cashing in one's chips

Verb

cash in one's chips (third-person singular simple present cashes in one's chips, present participle cashing in one's chips, simple past and past participle cashed in one's chips)

1. (idiomatic) 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."1913, B. M. Bower, chapter 13, in The Gringos
2. (idiomatic) To die.
   • A tough old hombre, unregenerate to the last, cashed in his chips in Oklahoma City the other day.1950 January 10, H. L. MacPherson, “Another Outlaw Dies With Boots Off”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 14 Jun 2011

   Synonyms:

   die