chip and dip

[ chip uhn dip ]

noun

1. a bowl or plate for holding potato chips or crackers with a smaller bowl, often placed in the center, for holding dip: usually sold as a set.

Idioms and Phrases

Also, chip'n dip . A snack food or an appetizer consisting of potato chips, crackers, or raw vegetables (like carrot sticks) that are used to scoop up a dip, a savory creamy mixture. For example, There wasn't much to eat; all they served was a chip and dip . The term is also used for the utensils employed for this dish—a plate for the crackers and a small bowl for the dip. [Mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?

From The Daily Beast

Late former governors of NY, TX starred in a 1994 snack chip ad.

From The Daily Beast

Can you chip away at the distrust of the police among black people?

From The Daily Beast

That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar.

From The Daily Beast

When he returned to challenge James in 2006, he was a celebrity with a chip on his shoulder.

From The Daily Beast

"Here's a white pitcher, Jess," Violet called, holding up a perfect specimen with a tiny chip in its nose.

From Project Gutenberg

In such a sea the boat was tossed as if she were a chip; but the gale gave her speed, and speed gave her quick steering power.

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So Roly dove into his pack, which lay unbound on the shore, and presently produced a fish-line wound around a chip.

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"Reckon they'll jest chip off all my feeturs 'fore they git done with me," he grinned, feeling of the wounded part.

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He was to go to Aberystwith College, and to become a preacher, and wear a black chip straw hat.

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