chip vs snack food

chip and snack food both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chip	Yes	No	Yes	No
snack food	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, snack food is a hypernym of chip; that is, snack food is a word with a broader meaning than chip:

chip (noun)	snack food (noun)
the act of chipping something	food for light meals or for eating between meals
(golf) a low running approach shot
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
a piece of dried bovine dung