Meaning of Chips | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.
2. Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter
3. Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state.
   Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
4. A carpenter.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […]”

“I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'”

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