fish and chippery

noun

A chip shop.

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Meanings

nounfish and chippery (plural fish and chipperies)

plural fish and chipperies · alternative fish-and-chippery

  1. informalA chip shop.

    Derek smiled at her and said, 'That would have shut him up a bit. He thought that he was in a fish and chippery and there he was in an export factory.'

    2014, Dennis J. McTaggart, Cold Gold II, page 112

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
chip shopfish-and-chippy

Origin

From fish and chips + -ery.

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