Chip may refer to:

Food

Chip (snack) A chip (American English and Australian English) or crisp (British English) is a snack food in the form of a crisp, flat or slightly bowl shaped, bite-sized unit. Some chips can be made into Dish (food), dishes and served as an Hors d'oeuvre, ap ...

, thin sliced food, cooked until crunchy **

Potato chip A potato chip (North American English; often just chip) or crisp (British and Irish English) is a thin slice of potato that has been either deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or ap ...

, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until crunchy, called a "crisp" in some countries, such as the UK. *

Chips (hot food) French fries (North American English), chips (British English), finger chips ( Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are '' batonnet'' or ''allumette''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium and France. Th ...

, fried potato batons also called ''french fries'' * Game chips, thin deep-fried slices of potato served as an accompaniment to roast gamebirds * Chocolate chip, small chunk of sweetened chocolate

Sports and gaming

Chip (association football) A chip, also known as a lob, is a shot in which the ball is kicked from underneath with accuracy but with less than maximum force, to launch it high into the air in order either to pass it over the heads of opponents or to score a goal over the go ...

, a type of football shot *

Chip (golf) The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities of the swing are known as golf stroke mechanics. There are differing opinions on what ...

, a type of golf shot * Casino token, often referred to as a chip

People and fictional characters

* Chip (name), a list of people and fictional characters with either the given name or nickname *

Chip (rapper) Jahmaal Noel Fyffe (born 26 November 1990), better known by his stage name Chip (previously Chipmunk), is a British rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, North London. In the past 14 years he has collaborated with the likes of Skepta, T.I., Mee ...

, English hip hop recording artist born Jahmaal Noel Fyffe in 1990 *

King Chip Charles Jawanzaa Worth (born October 20, 1986), known by his stage names King Chip and Chip tha Ripper, is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. He is notable for amassing several self-released mixtapes, as well as for his work with longtime ...

(born 1986), stage name of American hip hop rapper Charles Jawanzaa Worth, formerly known as Chip tha Ripper *

Chip Douglas Douglas Farthing Hatlelid (born August 27, 1942), better known as Chip Douglas, is an American songwriter, musician (bass, guitar and keyboards), and record producer, whose most famous work was during the 1960s. He was the bassist of the Turtle ...

, American songwriter, musician, and record producer Douglas Hatlelid (born 1942) *

Chip Taylor Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight; March 21, 1940) is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing " Angel of the Morning" and " Wild Thing". Early life Taylor was born on March 21, 1940, in Yonkers, New York. He is the brother of ...

, stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight (born 1940) *

Chip Fairway Brett J. Keen (November 2, 1972 – April 9, 2011), better known by the ring name Chip Fairway, was an American professional wrestler. One of the top cruiserweight wrestlers in the Midwestern United States during the mid-to-late 1990s, his in-ri ...

, a ring name of American professional wrestler Brett J. Keen (1972–2011)

Biology

* Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), a molecular biology method to map DNA sites *

STUB1 STUB1 (STIP1 homology and U-Box containing protein 1) is a human gene that codes for the protein CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein). Function The CHIP protein encoded by this gene binds to and inhibits the ATPase activity of the cha ...

, a human gene also known as CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein) * Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP)

Computing

* Chip, a

monolithic integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny M ...

without its packaging, a microchip ** An integrated circuit mounted on a surface mount chip carrier * Chip (CDMA), the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA *

CHIP (computer) CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), released as open-source hardware running open-source software. It was advertised as "the world's first $9 computer". CHIP and related produ ...

, Linux dev board built by Next Thing Co. and marketed as a miniature computer *

CHIP (programming language) CHIP (Constraint Handling in Prolog) is a constraint logic programming language developed by M. Dincbas, Pascal Van Hentenryck and colleagues in 1985 at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC), initially using a Prolog language interf ...

, based on Prolog * CHIP-8, a video game programming language in the 1970s *

ChucK Chuck is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * C ...

for iPhone/iPad (ChiP), a programming language used for music synthesis * Connected Home over IP (CHIP), a protocol for home automation

Finance

Chip (stock market) A chip is a terminology to describe a stock of a particular quality. Chip Share {, class="wikitable" , +Share !Name !Description , - , , A share , Company listed in Shanghai or Shenzhen and traded in renminbi , - , , B share , C ...

, description of stock of a particular quality *

Clearing House Interbank Payments System The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions. By 2015, it was settling well over US$1.5 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments in cross border and domestic ...

(CHIPS), a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions

Organizations and programs

California Highway Patrol The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcem ...

(CHiP), a law enforcement agency of California *

CHIP Holding CHIP Holding GmbH is a German-based publishing house owned by Hubert Burda Media. Its core activity is the publication of special-interest, country- and language-specific print and online media in the information and communication technology sector. ...

, a German-based publishing house *

Children's Health Insurance Program The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to ...

(CHIP), a US federal government program * Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP), an Australian government funding program, along with its Community Development Employment Projects *

Masonic Child Identification Programs Masonic Child Identification Programs (CHIP) are a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges to aid in the identification and recovery of missing children. CHIP programs are supported monetarily at the Grand Lodge level, and are staf ...

, a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges

Other uses

* Chip, one of the mascots of the

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

* Chip language, spoken in Nigeria * Swarf, also known as chips, the debris or waste resulting from metalworking operations * ''CHIP'' (magazine), a German computer magazine ** ''

Chip-India ''Intelligent Computing CHIP'' (IC CHIP) was a monthly Information Technology magazine published by Network 18 Publishing Ltd (formerly Infomedia 18 Ltd.) since December 2003. It was the Indian edition of the German monthly ''CHIP'', which is a r ...

'', Indian edition of German computer magazine ''CHIP''