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chip (sth) in

informal phrasal verb with chip
 
 
/tʃɪp/ verb [I or T] (-pp-)

Definition

C2 to give some money when several people are giving money to pay for something together: They all chipped in £100 and bought their mother a trip to Greece.Paying and spending money
(Definition of chip (sth) in from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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