chipboard

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Chipboard is a cheap board pressed from wood chips and glue. A sheet of chipboard.

It is strong flat and useless on edge, and a screw into the edge will pull straight out. Chipboard swells and never recovers once it gets wet, which is why it fails under sinks.

Definitions of chipboard

1nounchipboardA cheap board pressed from wood chips and glue.C1
“The whole floor was chipboard under the carpet.”

chipboard is a board.

Where it comes from

From chip + board.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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chipboard in the wild

Oriented strand board is sometimes confused with chipboard, a synonym for particle board, whose "chips" are of a size that a lay person would likely describe as "particles".
Oriented strand board
The arson squad investigated how the fire started, determining the fire was fuelled by rolled up carpet and chipboard which had been pulled from the roof and ceiling.
The Palace (entertainment complex)
In its original printing in 2001, the artwork consisted of an accordion-folded set of prints illustrating a story tucked inside a sturdy printed / handpainted chipboard folder.
The Ballad of the Red Shoes
WVLC stands for "White Vat Lined Chip" (a.k.a. white vat) and is type of chipboard with white sides.
WVLC (paper)
Barrel nuts are also common in flat-pack furniture, where long bolts and barrel nuts are used to hold together T joints in chipboard sheets.
Barrel nut

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