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chips up

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

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

Words near chips up in the dictionary

  1. chips of the old block
  2. chips off old blocks
  3. chips off the block
  4. chips off the old block
  5. chips on one's shoulder
  6. chips up
  7. chips with everything
  8. chips-with-everything
  9. chipseal
  10. chipsealed
  11. chipsealing

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