Definitions for blue-chip

• Definition
• Anagrams (199)

blue-chip blue-chip

Spelling: [bloo-chip]

IPA: /ˈbluˌtʃɪp/

Blue-Chip is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in blue-chip (-bcehilpu).

Definitions for blue-chip

noun

1. Chiefly Poker. a blue-colored chip of high value.
2. a common stock issued by a major company that has financial strength, stability against fluctuations, and a good record of dividend payments: regarded as a low-risk investment.
3. a secure and valuable item or property held in reserve:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
2. having outstanding or exemplary qualities within a specified category; leading:

Origin of blue-chip

First recorded in 1930-35

Examples for blue-chip

Here are some of the blue-chip companies now run by women: Pepsi, Kraft, Yahoo!

The blue-chip recruits that routinely came to the school will no longer matriculate.

We pulled together a blue-chip panel of financial historians who nominated and ranked their choices.

So $1,000 invested in any of these hot, blue-chip, name-brand IPOs would have been worth nothing a few years later.

They work for blue-chip corporations, such as Goldman Sachs and Microsoft.

“Ordinarily a plea bargain has a five year cap,” said Rick Simmons, a blue-chip defense attorney with no involvement in the case.

The organization Fix the Debt has enlisted dozens of CEOs of blue-chip companies to push for a deal.

The company was a blue-chip mining operation working the beryllium-rich asteroid belt out of San Francisco.

In between his government stints, he practiced in the blue-chip firm of Hogan Hartson.