blue-chip

1. 1.

   extremely valuable

   “Rembrandt is considered a blue-chip artist”

   Similarvaluable

Questions about blue-chip

What does blue-chip mean?

blue-chip means "extremely valuable".

How many syllables are in blue-chip?

blue-chip has 2 syllables and divides as blue--chip under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is blue-chip a common word?

blue-chip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.