What is the meaning of CHIPPING. Phrases containing CHIPPING
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using drugs occasionally
Using drugs occasionally
a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. The association with a gambling chip is logical. Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. putting chips into the centre of the table being necessary to continue playing.
using heroin occasionally, avoiding addiction
Pronounced ceebs. Acronym for term 'Can't be arsed'. When you say "I have CBS" it means you cant be arsed with anything in particular. Contributor said it summed up his time at Chipping Campden School, and may in fact sum up many peoples lives.
Chipping is Australian slang for being cheeky, impudent. Chipping is American slang for the occasional use of illicit drugs.
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A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
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A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
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The chipping sparrow.
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A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
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The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
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A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
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To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
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A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
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The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
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