chips

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of chip

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of chip
2. (slang)A carpenter.

   “But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […]”

   “I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'”

3. (form-of, plural)plural of CHiP
4. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state.

name

1. Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.