chippery

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noun

A restaurant that sells chips.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounchippery (plural chipperies)

plural chipperies

  1. A restaurant that sells chips.

    Nicky, the owner, is often seen wandering between the restaurant and the chippery next door, making sure that customers are satisfied.

    2010, Eve Zibart, The Unofficial Guide to New York City, page 361
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    […] quaint and picturesque from a distance, you didn't want to know; nor the crime rate, nor those small cafés where they served up the usual muck. The frozen steak houses and chipperies.

    1969, John Gardner, A complete state of death, page 106

    De Koog De Koog's main drag, Dorpstraat, Texel's tourist haven, is lined with cheap chipperies, bistros of uncertain provenance and the island's only concentration of boisterous bars.

    2016, Lonely Planet The Netherlands
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