- (British English) (also French fry, fry North American English, British English)[usually plural]
a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat 油炸土豆条；炸薯条 
He was eating a burger and chips. 他在吃汉堡和薯条。 a bag of chips 一袋炸薯条 All main courses are served with chips or baked potato. 所有的主菜都配有炸土豆条或烤土豆。
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda2All he'll eat is chips. 他只吃炸薯条。 I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans. 我从来不做什么象样的饭菜，只靠吃炸薯条和烤豆。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greasy
- frozen
- oven-ready
- …
- bag
- plate
- eat
- have
- live on
- …
- pan
- shop
- and chips
- with chips
- (also potato chip)(both North American English)(British English crisp, potato crisp)
a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods. 油炸土豆片；炸薯片 
a bag of chips 一袋炸薯条
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- potato
- tortilla
- bag
- chips and dip
- chips and salsa
- (also tortilla chip)
a small flat hard piece of food, often like a triangle in shape, made from maize 芯片： 用玉米制成的一块扁平小硬食品，通常呈三角形， - = microchip
computer/graphics/memory chips 计算机/图形/存储芯片 the world's biggest chip maker 世界上最大的芯片制造商 chip technology 芯片科技
Extra ExamplesAdvances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip. 技术的进步使一片芯片可以集成更多的电路。 An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain. 他的大脑中可以植入一个电子芯片。 The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz. 这台计算机的集成图形芯片运行速度为 333 兆赫。 This computer uses the DX chip. 这台计算机用DX 芯片。 This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing. 这台笔记本电脑用的是专为移动计算设计的芯片。 a Pentium-compatible chip set 与奔腾兼容的芯片组 a chip containing the coding devices 含有编码装置的芯片
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- silicon
- graphics
- …
- make
- manufacture
- produce
- …
- contain something
- run
- design
- technology
- set
- …
- on a/the chip
- chip and PIN
the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object （木头、玻璃等的）缺口，缺损处 
a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object （木头、玻璃等破损后留下的）碎屑，碎片，碎渣 chips of wood 碎木屑 chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate) 碎粒巧克力饼干 The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips. 去除了内脏的生鱼在碎木屑火堆上方慢慢地熏。
a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling （作赌注用的）筹码 a poker chip 扑克牌戏筹码。
- (also chip shot)
(in golf, football (soccer), etc. 高尔夫球、足球等 an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance （高尔夫球）近穴击球，切削击球；（足球）撮球 She left herself with a short chip to the green. 她给自己留了一点零头。
see also blue-chip
Word OriginMiddle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.
Idioms
cash in your chips
- (informal)
to die 死 He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65. 去年夏天，65岁的他兑现了自己的筹码。
a chip off the old block
- (informal)
a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave （相貌或性格）酷似父亲或母亲的人
have a chip on your shoulder (about something)
- (informal)
to be sensitive about something that happened in the past and become easily offended if it is mentioned because you think that you were treated unfairly （因受过委屈而变得）敏感，好生气 He has a real chip on his shoulder about being adopted. 他对被收养一事非常不满。
have had your chips
- (British English, informal)
to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed 注定要失败（或完蛋）
when the chips are down