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chip, chip shot

n. (golf) a low running approach shot

chip, poker chip

n. a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip

n. a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip

n. a piece of dried bovine dung

chip, chipping, splintering

n. the act of chipping something

chip, microchip, micro chip, silicon chip, microprocessor chip

n. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

chip

v. play a chip shot

chip

v. form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"

nick, chip

v. cut a nick into

chip, knap, cut off, break off

v. break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off

v. break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"

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gouge, force out

v. force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"

notch

v. cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope"

cleave

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

amputate, cut off

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

dismember, take apart, discerp

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

dismember

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

truncate, cut short

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

fracture

v. break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"

break

v. find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"

carve, chip at

v. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"

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