fish-and-chip

A form of fish and chips — A meal of fish fried in batter and served with chips (fried potato pieces), popular throughout the Anglosphere, especially in coastal regions.

Meanings

noun

alternative fish and chip

  1. attributiveAttributive form of fish and chips.

    Efforts by Horn and Hardart to diversify into gourmet restaurants, office catering services, a fish-and-chip chain and drive-in ‘Burger Kings’ proved unavailing, resulting in a nugatory profit in 1975 and a loss of $2·7 million last year.

    1977, The Accountant, volume 177
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    A few hours later, twenty miles west of Dumfries, on a dark, miserable Saturday afternoon, I pulled up in the town of Castle Douglas, hoping for a bite to eat. But the Indian restaurant was closed, the Chinese restaurant was closed, the fish-and-chip store was closed, and the big old Douglas Arms Hotel, which Morton wrote about so enthusiastically, refused to serve me, because everybody was getting ready for a large party of Danish veterinarians who had booked the place for their evening meal, several hours from now.

    1999, David W[illiam] McFadden, An Innocent in Scotland: More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters, McClelland & Stewart, published 2016, →ISBN

    I had a pre-Christmas luncheon at Harry Ramsden’s Fish and Chip Shop at Guiseley, where the menu was dominated by Harry’s Challenge, a fish-and-chip dish so gigantic that if you got through it you were given a free pudding and a signed certificate.

    2009, Jan Morris, Contact! A Book of Encounters, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, page 189
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