chips

See also: Chips and CHiPs

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɪps/
  • (file)

Noun

chips

  1. plural of chip
    Wow, look at the chips on that motherboard!
    What kind of chips should we get: barbecue or sour cream and onion?
    The diner made its own chips from scratch.

Verb

chips

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chip

Noun

chips (plural chips)

  1. (slang) A carpenter.
    • 1929, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 144, page 462)
      I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪps

Noun

chips

  1. potato chips, crisps
  2. shit! (minced oath)

Finnish

Etymology

English chips

Noun

chips

  1. potato chips

Declension

Inflection of chips (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative chips chipsit
genitive chipsin chipsien
partitive chipsiä chipsejä
illative chipsiin chipseihin
singular plural
nominative chips chipsit
accusative nom. chips chipsit
gen. chipsin
genitive chipsin chipsien
partitive chipsiä chipsejä
inessive chipsissä chipseissä
elative chipsistä chipseistä
illative chipsiin chipseihin
adessive chipsillä chipseillä
ablative chipsiltä chipseiltä
allative chipsille chipseille
essive chipsinä chipseinä
translative chipsiksi chipseiksi
instructive chipsein
abessive chipsittä chipseittä
comitative chipseineen

Synonyms


French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chips.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃips/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /tʃip/

Noun

chips f or m or m pl (plural only)

  1. (Anglicism) chips (American English), crisps (British English)

Usage notes

  • Feminine in France, masculine in Belgium and masculine plural in some older dictionaries.

Further reading


Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʂips/
  • (file)

Noun

chips m anim

  1. (British) potato crisp, (US) potato chip

Declension

Further reading

  • chips in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

chips m pl (plural only)

  1. chips (thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags)
  2. plural of chip

Spanish

Noun

chips m pl

  1. plural of chip

Swedish

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕɪps/
  • (file)

Noun

chips n

  1. (Anglicism): chips (American English), crisps (British English)

Declension

Declension of chips 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative chips chipset chips chipsen
Genitive chips chipsets chips chipsens
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