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The phrase having a chip on one's shoulder refers to holding a grudge or grievance that readily provokes disputation. chip on the shoulder comes from the ancient right of shipwrights within the Royal Navy Dockyards to take home a daily allowance of offcuts of timber, even if good wood was cut up for this purpose.
chip1. 1  to contribute money or assistance; participate. 2  Games. to bet a chip or chips, as in poker. 3  to interrupt a conversation to say something; butt in: We all chipped in with our suggestions for the reunion.