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chip on one's shoulder

chip
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chip]
    • /tʃɪp ɒn, ɔn wʌnz ˈʃoʊl dər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chip]
    • /tʃɪp ɒn, ɔn wʌnz ˈʃoʊl dər/

Definitions of chip on one's shoulder words

  • noun chip on one's shoulder an inclination to fight or quarrel 3
  • noun chip on one's shoulder a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking. 1
  • noun chip on one's shoulder a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips. 1
  • noun chip on one's shoulder a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip. 1
  • noun chip on one's shoulder any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker; counter. 1
  • noun chip on one's shoulder Also called microchip. Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed. Compare microprocessor. 1
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Origin of chip on one's shoulder

First appearance:

before 1300
One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; (noun) Middle English chip (compare Old English cipp plowshare, beam, i.e., piece cut off); (v.) late Middle English chippen (compare Old English -cippian in forcippian to cut off); akin to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch kippen to chip eggs, hatch

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Parts of speech for Chip on one's shoulder

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Chip on one's shoulder

chip on one's shoulder popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

Synonyms for chip on one's shoulder

noun chip on one's shoulder

  • fight — a battle or combat.
  • gauntlet — a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
  • truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
All 3 Synonyms of chip on one's shoulder

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