chip up
verb1
Idiomatic To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
- It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81:
2
Card games, Poker To exchange lower-denomination chips for higher-denomination chips.
3
Card games, Poker To increase one's amount of chips.