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chip up

chip up verb: to cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.

Verb

chip up (third-person singular simple present chips up, present participle chipping up, simple past and past participle chipped up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
    • It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81
  2. To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.
    Synonyms:
    color up
  3. To increase one's amount of chips.

Synonyms of chip up

Forms of chip up

third-person singular presentchips up
present participlechipping up
past participlechipped up
pastchipped up

Questions about chip up

What does chip up mean?
Chip up means to cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
What part of speech is chip up?
Chip up is a verb.
What is the past tense of chip up?
The past tense of chip up is chipped up.

Words near chip up in the dictionary

  1. chip shots
  2. chip steak
  3. chip steaks
  4. chip time
  5. chip times
  6. chip up
  7. chip wagon
  8. chip wagons
  9. chip-and-gather
  10. chip-fell-out-of-a-oak
  11. chip-shop

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