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: blue--chip. The stress falls on "blue-".

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.