chip basket

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noun

a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat

a basket made of thin strips of wood, used esp for packing fruit

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Words nearby chip basket

chip, chip and dip, chip and PIN, chi particle, chip-based, chip basket, chipboard, chip carving, Chipewyan, chip graft, chip heater

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How to use chip basket in a sentence

Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?
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Late former governors of NY, TX starred in a 1994 snack chip ad.
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Can you chip away at the distrust of the police among black people?
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That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar.
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When he returned to challenge James in 2006, he was a celebrity with a chip on his shoulder.
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Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.
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When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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Below the round thing hung a square basket, with many ropes, and other things, fast to it.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum