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chip up en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.
1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81:
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To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.
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To increase one's amount of chips.
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Synonyms
color up