fish-and-chipper

noun

A chip shop

Meanings

nounfish-and-chipper (plural fish-and-chippers)

plural fish-and-chippers

  1. IrelandslangA chip shop

    I could get thirty shillings in the local fish-and-chipper on a Saturday night.

    2013 April 28, Zoe Miller, The Compromise, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Next morning I phoned McKinley from the kiosk around the corner and made a point of meeting up with him at a nearby fish-and-chipper.

    2011 April 25, Gardiner M. Weir, A World of Dreams: Scots-Irish Short Stories and Poems, PublishAmerica, →ISBN

    And don't forget the smell of the fish-and-chipper on a cold winter's night; sometimes they even smelt better than they tasted!

    2015 March 3, Éamonn MacThomáis, Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN

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