Chips

Chips may refer to:

Food

• A thick version of French fries, strips of deep-fried potato
• Potato chips (in North America), a snack food comprising thin slices of fried potatoes
• Tortilla chips, a snack food made from corn tortillas
• Corn chips a snack food made from corn
• Chocolate chip, small chunks of chocolate, used for making chocolate-chip cookies, among other things
• Banana chips, deep fried or dried slices of banana
• Apple chips, a snack food made from sliced apples.

Entertainment

• Mr. Chips, the mascot for the UK game show Catchphrase
• CHiPs, a television series about the California Highway Patrol
  • The television reunion movie CHiPs '99
• Chips (band), a Swedish pop band
  • Chips (album), from the eponymous group
• Chips, an Irish pop band led by Linda Martin
• Ch!pz, a Dutch band, popular in The Netherlands and in some European countries
• The main character in the 1934 novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
• Illustrated Chips, a British comic published between 26 July 1890 and 12 September 1953
• Chips (literary magazine), the award winning literary and art magazine of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
• CHiPs Improv, the premiere improv and sketch comedy team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Chip's Challenge, a computer game first released in 1989
• Whizzer and Chips, a British comic published from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990

Technology

• Computer chips, integrated circuits used in computers and other electronics
• Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System (CHIPS), which defines a computer network's interface and protocol systems used in serial and wireless communications
• Chips and Technologies, the first fabless semiconductor company
• Cosmic Hot Interstellar Spectrometer (CHIPS), a microsatellite launched in 2003

People

• Henry Channon (1897–1958), British MP and diarist nicknamed "Chips"
• Chips Moman (born 1936), American musician
• Chips Rafferty (1909-1971), Australian actor
• Charles E. Bohlen (1904-1974), American diplomat nicknamed "Chip"
• Chips Kiesbye, guitarist for Swedish band Sator
• Chips Keswick (born 1940), British businessman
• Chips Mackinolty (born 1954), Australian artist

Other uses

• Woodchips
• Casino chips or poker chips, small colored metal or plastic discs used as tokens of currency in gambling establishments
• Cow chips or cow dung, dried bovine feces.
• Clearing House Interbank Payments System, one half of the primary US network for large-value domestic and international payments
• Chips the dog, an American wardog who served in World War II
• Chips (company), a company based in Åland, Finland that produces potato chips and other food products
• Swarf, the debris or waste resulting from metalworking operations.

See also

• Chip (disambiguation)
• CHIP (disambiguation)
• Chipper (disambiguation)
• Chipping (disambiguation)
• Crisp (disambiguation)