Chip
Appearance
Chip or chips may refer to:
Common meanings
- Casino token
- French fries, long chunks of potato that have been deep fried or baked, called chips in some countries, such as the UK
- Microchip (Integrated circuit), an electronic circuit on one plate of semiconductor material
- Potato chip, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until crunchy, called crisps in some countries, such as the UK
- Tortilla chip, a snack food made from corn tortillas cut into wedges then fried or baked.
Arts and entertainment
Television
- CHiPs, a television series about the California Highway Patrol
- the television reunion movie CHiPs '99
Music
- Chips (band), a Swedish pop band
- Chips (album), from the eponymous group
- Chips, an Irish pop band led by Linda Martin
Characters
- Chip Chase, an Autobots human ally
- Chip, one of the Chip 'n' Dale animated chipmunks created by the Walt Disney Company
- Mr. Chips, an English schoolteacher in the James Hilton novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips and film adaptations
- Chip Flagston, in the comic strip Hi and Lois, son of the title characters
- Chip Potts, in the Disney film Beauty and the Beast and other franchise films and TV episodes
- Chip, a character in Sonic Unleashed
- Chip, a one-time potato chip character on Spongebob Squarepants
Others
- Chips, a separate pull-out section of Whizzer and Chips, a British comic published from 1969 to 1990
- CHiPs Improv, an improv and sketch comedy team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
People
- Chip (nickname), a number of people
- Chip Ferguson, American football player
- Chip Hooper (born 1958), American former tennis player
- Chip Kelly, American football head coach
- Chip (rapper) (born Jahmaal Noel Fyffe in 1990), English hip hop recording artist
- Chip Taylor, stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight (born 1940)
- Chips (nickname), various people
- Chips Mackinolty (born 1954), Australian artist
- King Chip (formerly known as Chip tha Ripper), stage name of American hip hop rapper Charles Jawanzaa Worth (born 1986)
Publications
- CHIP (magazine), a German computer magazine
- Chip-India, Indian edition of German computer magazine CHIP
- Chips (literary magazine), the award-winning literary and art magazine of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Science and technology
- Chip (CDMA), the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA
- ChiP (ChucK for iPhone/iPad), a programming language used for music synthesis
- CHIP (programming language), based on Prolog
- CHIP (computer), an inexpensive Linux dev board built by Next Thing Co. and marketed as a miniature computer
- Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), a molecular biology method to map DNA sites of specific protein-DNA interaction, such as promoters
- Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System (CHIPS), which defines a computer network's interface and protocol systems used in serial and wireless communications
- Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS), a microsatellite launched in 2003
- STUB1, a human gene also known as CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein)
Sports
- Chip, a type of association football (soccer) shot
- Chip stroke or chip-in, a type of golf shot (see Golf#Stroke mechanics)
- Chip, one of the mascots of the University of Colorado at Boulder
Other uses
- California Highway Patrol (CHiP)
- Chip language, spoken in Nigeria
- Chips (company), a company based in Åland, Finland that produces potato chips and other food products
- Chips (dog), an American wardog who served in World War II
- Chips, Manchester, an apartment building
- Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions
- Masonic Child Identification Programs, a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges
- State Children's Health Insurance Program, now known as the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a US federal government program
- Swarf, also known as chips, the debris or waste resulting from metalworking operations
See also
- CHIP-8, a video game programming language in the 1970s
- Chipper (disambiguation)
- Chipping (disambiguation)
- Ch!pz, a Dutch band