(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
(Southern US) A child.
(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
(archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
chip
chip
noun
(New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, archaic in Canada, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
(US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
(archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
(cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
(curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
(golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
(historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
(nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
(slang, dated) A sovereign (the coin).
(sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
verb
(UK, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.
(also, to chip at) To make fun of.
(intransitive) To become chipped.
(intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
(transitive) To break small pieces from.
(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
(transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
(transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
(transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
chop
chop
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
(Internet) An IRC channel operator.
(chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
(colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
(colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
(informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
A complete shipment.
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
(obsolete) To twist words.
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
(transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
(transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
To chap or crack.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
To seal a license or passport.
mpch
pech
pech
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.