have had one's chips

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Poker chips?”)

Pronunciation

  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Verb

have had one's chips (third-person singular simple present has had one's chips, present participle having had one's chips, simple past and past participle had had one's chips)

  1. (idiomatic) To be dead or finished.
    • 2005, Edward Blishen, Kingfisher Treasury of Super Cool Stories, page 118:
      He must have had his chips, she thought, and our children will be born fatherless.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.