poker chip
English
[edit]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: pok‧er chip
Noun
[edit]poker chip (plural poker chips)
- (gambling) A disk-shaped counter that is used when gambling to represent money.
- 1884, Puck, volume 16, page 294:
- A pen-knife, a bunch of keys, a Bland dollar, a punched dime, five pennies, a poker-chip and two cloves falling from a trousers-pocket to the floor in the dead waste and middle of the night, when a man is trying to get to bed without awaking his wife, will make more racket than a young and playful cyclone dallying with a tinware factory.