Chippy house
noun phrase
A brothel (1920s+)
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[chip] /tʃɪp/ noun 1. a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking. 2. a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips. 3. a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip. 4. any […]
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- Chips are down
sentence The time of final decision and hard confrontation has come; resolution is at hand •Usu with when: When the chips are down he goes to pieces/ For a change, when the chips were on the table, came up with some good stuff [1940s+; fr the final bets of a poker hand]
- Chip scale packaging
hardware (CSP) A type of surface mount integrated circuit packaging that provides pre-speed-sorted, pre-tested and pre-packaged die without requiring special testing. An example is Motorola’s Micro SMT packaging. See also: chip-on-board, flip chip, multichip module, known good die, ball grid array. [“Chip scale packaging gains at SMI. (Surface Mount International)”, Bernard Levine, Electronic News (1991), […]
- Chipset
/ˈtʃɪpsɛt/ noun 1. a highly integrated circuit on the motherboard of a computer that controls many of its data transfer functions 2. (computing) the main processing circuitry on many video cards noun a set of integrated circuits that have a specific purpose in a computer system, a group of microchips used together to perform a […]