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chipped at

chipped at is the simple past and past participle of chip at.

Meaning of chip at

Verb

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

  1. (dated, slang) To argue with (someone); to nag, criticize, insult or tease (someone).

Questions about chipped at

What is chipped at the simple past and past participle of?
Chipped at is the simple past and past participle of chip at.

Words near chipped at in the dictionary

  1. chippable
  2. chippage
  3. chippages
  4. chipped
  5. chipped and charged
  6. chipped at
  7. chipped away
  8. chipped beef
  9. chipped chopped ham
  10. chipped ham
  11. chipped in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chipped at (page history and authors); chip at (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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