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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.
chip noun [C] (PIECE). âº a âsmall âpiece of something or a âpiece that has âbroken off a âlarger âobject: âchocolate chips âwood chips Chips of âpaint from the âpeeling âceiling âlittered the âfloor. âº A chip is also the âmark âleft on an âobject where a âsmall âpiece has âbroken off.