chit

/tʃɪt/

/tʃɪt/

Other forms: chits

A chit is a tab or an IOU, a record of money owed. Your neighborhood deli might give you a chit the end of each week, letting you know how much you owe for your daily bagels.

A waiter at a restaurant often keeps a chit, adding up each item your group orders throughout the evening. There is also the kind of chit you keep when you're on an expense account, with your employer paying for hotels and meals — at the end of a business trip, you might turn in your chit so your boss knows exactly what the company's money was spent on. The root of chit is the Hindi word chitthi, "letter or note."

Definitions of chit

1. noun

   the bill in a restaurant
   synonyms: check, tab

   type of:

   account, bill, invoice

   an itemized statement of money owed for goods or services
2. noun

   a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect
   “she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the class”

   “she's a saucy chit”

   type of:

   fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman

   a young woman