chip in
Britishverb
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to contribute (money, time, etc) to a cause or fund
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(intr) to interpose a remark or interrupt with a remark
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Contribute money, help, or advice, as in If we all chip in we'll have enough to buy a suitable gift , or Everyone chipped in with ideas for the baby shower . Mark Twain used this term in Roughing It (1872): “I'll be there and chip in and help, too.” [Mid-1800s]
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In poker and other games, to put up chips or money as one's bet. For example, I'll chip in another hundred but that's my limit or, as Bret Harte put it in Gabriel Conroy (1876): “You've jest cut up thet rough with my higher emotions, there ain't enough left to chip in on a ten-cent ante.” [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
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Apple played a major role building Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing into the colossus of the chip industry by committing to make its latest iPhone chips in the company’s Taiwan plants.
When it burned down in 2015, the community chipped in to rebuild.
First came Graviton and Inferentia chips in 2018, the former for general cloud computing and the latter for powering AI models.
From Barron's
Following a round of particularly intense Russian barrages two years earlier, Biletsky had convinced his neighbours to chip in together to install solar panels and batteries on the roof of their high-rise apartment block.
From Barron's
Even the little speckled tree frogs, the katydids, and the crickets were chipping in with their nickel’s worth of welcome music.
From Literature
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