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chips at

chips at is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chips at

What is chips at the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chips at is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chip at.

Words near chips at in the dictionary

  1. chipre
  2. chipres
  3. chips
  4. chips and charges
  5. chips and cheese
  6. chips at
  7. chips away
  8. chips in
  9. chips into
  10. chips mayai
  11. chips of old blocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chips 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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