chip echoic syllable.
   Comb chip-bird: Labrador savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis labradorius).
   [1951 PETERS& BURLEIGH 385 (The sparrow's) song is a lisping tsip-tsip-tsip ... ] 1959 MCATEE 64 ~ white-crowned sparrow (Labr.).
   chip-chip: children's game in which players guess the number of marbles (or other objects) hidden in hand or bag (P 245-57).
   P 148-71 When ally season began everyone tried to get as many allies as possible. Each had his bag or sock of allies [and we played chip-chip]. P 108-76 We used to say also 'Chip, chip, how many men aboard?'

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