chip

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cheep, as a bird.
• noun A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.
• noun A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.
• noun A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.
• noun Slang Money.
• noun A small, thin piece of semiconductor bearing numerous circuits integrated into its substrate. A chip smaller than a fingernail can hold millions of circuits. Most of a computer's circuitry is built from chips mounted on circuit boards.
• noun A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip.
• noun A very small piece of food or candy.
• noun Chiefly British French fries.
• noun Wood, palm leaves, straw, or similar material cut and dried for weaving.
• noun A fragment of dried animal dung used as fuel.
• noun Something worthless.
• noun Sports A chip shot.
• intransitive verb To chop or cut with an ax or other implement.
• intransitive verb To break a small piece from.
• intransitive verb To break or cut off (a small piece).
• intransitive verb To shape or carve by cutting or chopping.
• intransitive verb To become broken off into small pieces.
• intransitive verb Sports To make a chip shot in golf.
• idiom (chip off the old block) A child whose appearance or character closely resembles that of one or the other parent.
• idiom (chip on (one's) shoulder) A habitually hostile or combative attitude.
• idiom (when the chips are down) At a critical or difficult time.
• noun A trick method of throwing one's opponent in wrestling.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The cry of the bat.
• In poker, to bet a counter of the smallest value, in order to keep in the pool until others declare.
• To utter a short, dry, crisp sound, as a bird or a bat; cheep; chirp.
• noun Specifically, in gem-cutting, a cleavage which weighs less than three fourths of a carat.
• noun In wrestling, a special mode of throwing one's opponent; a trick.
• noun A quarrel; a falling out; a ‘spat.’
• To cut into small pieces or chips; diminish or disfigure by cutting away a little at a time or in small pieces; hack away. See chipping.
• In poker, faro, and other games at cards, to bet; lay a wager: as, to chip five dollars (that is, to stake chips representing five dollars).
• To break or fly off in small pieces, as the glazing in pottery.
• In poker, to bet a chip: as, I chip.
• To carp; gibe; sneer.
• noun A small fragment of wood, stone, or other substance, separated from a body by a blow of an instrument, particularly a cutting instrument, as an ax, an adz, or a chisel.
• noun Wood, coarse straw, palm-leaves, or similar material split into thin slips and made by weaving into hats and bonnets.
• noun Anything dried up and deprived of strength and character.
• noun Specifically— The dried dung of the American bison; a buffalo-chip.
• noun Nautical, the quadrant-shaped piece of wood attached to the end of the log-line. See log.
• noun One of the small disks or counters used in poker and some other games at cards, usually of ivory or bone, marked to represent various sums of money.
• noun A carpenter: commonly in the plural.
• noun A small wedge-shaped piece of ivory used in rough-tuning a piano.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To break or fly off in small pieces.