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noun

a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.

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Origin of corn chip

First recorded in 1945–50

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?
Dr. Howard Fuller's Injustice Education|Campbell Brown|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar.
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For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.
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The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The Vine appears at intervals, but is not general through this region: Indian Corn is also rare, and appears in small patches.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey