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chipped up

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

Meaning of chip up

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.

Questions about chipped up

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

Words near chipped up in the dictionary

  1. chipped in
  2. chipped into
  3. chipped potato
  4. chipped potatoes
  5. chipped rice
  6. chipped up
  7. Chippendale
  8. Chippendalism
  9. Chippenham
  10. Chippenham Without
  11. chipper

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