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chiseling in

chiseling in is the present participle and gerund of chisel in.

Meaning of chisel in

Verb

chisel in (third-person singular simple present chisels in, present participle (US) chiseling in or (UK) chiselling in, simple past and past participle (US) chiseled in or (UK) chiselled in)

  1. (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
    • Ignore him, he's only here because he chiseled in.
  2. (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
    • He's chiseling in on our operation.

Questions about chiseling in

What is chiseling in the present participle and gerund of?
Chiseling in is the present participle and gerund of chisel in.

Words near chiseling in in the dictionary

  1. chiseled out
  2. chiseled up
  3. chiseler
  4. chiselers
  5. chiseling
  6. chiseling in
  7. chiseling out
  8. chiseling up
  9. chiselings
  10. chiselled
  11. chiselled in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiseling in (page history and authors); chisel in (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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