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chip in

verb

to contribute (money, time, etc) to a cause or fund
(intr) to interpose a remark or interrupt with a remark

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Idioms and Phrases

Contribute money, help, or advice, as in If we all chip in we'll have enough to buy a suitable gift , or Everyone chipped in with ideas for the baby shower . Mark Twain used this term in Roughing It (1872): “I'll be there and chip in and help, too.” [Mid-1800s]

In poker and other games, to put up chips or money as one's bet. For example, I'll chip in another hundred but that's my limit or, as Bret Harte put it in Gabriel Conroy (1876): “You've jest cut up thet rough with my higher emotions, there ain't enough left to chip in on a ten-cent ante.” [Mid-1800s]

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The usually composed Willie le Roux's bewildering chip in his own 22 did not cost his side at the time, but summed up their inefficiencies.

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After that he chipped in goals at a regular rate.

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Earlier this month, Mr Huang travelled with President Trump to the Middle East where the company said it would sell hundreds of thousands of its AI chips in Saudi Arabia.

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Manuel chips in enthusiastically with an impish grin, saying that the new systems that he too firmly believes will emerge will be the "next stage in humanity's evolution".

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Eventually, it will mass produce the most advanced chips in the world.

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