Over thirty meanings
in Macquarie's authoritative dictionaries
the one unexpected:
chip (2) (Wrestling)
a tricky or special method
by which an opponent
can be thrown.
While most chips
are small things they can
be evidence for
destruction, harmful action
as: old forest logging
or destruction of property
leaving chipped crockery
for archeologists to reassemble.
However, many are benign -
pieces of food esp. potato;
counters of bone or ivory
used as tokens in card games;
those minute squares forming
the integrated circuit
running this computer.
But what is this tricky or special
method by which an opponent
can be thrown? A large move?
A jangle of arms and legs
like Laocoon and the beasts?
Or something so subtle, so small
the opponent cries out and falls
his chip on the shoulder afterwards
the only evidence for foul play?
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