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fish-and-chipper

fish-and-chipper noun: a chip shop.

Noun

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

  1. (Ireland, slang) A chip shop
    • 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
    • I could get thirty shillings in the local fish-and-chipper on a Saturday night.2013 April, Zoe Miller, The Compromise, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Forms of fish-and-chipper

pluralfish-and-chippers

Origin of fish-and-chipper

From fish and chips + -er.

Questions about fish-and-chipper

What does fish-and-chipper mean?
Fish-and-chipper means a chip shop.
What part of speech is fish-and-chipper?
Fish-and-chipper is a noun.
What is the plural of fish-and-chipper?
The plural of fish-and-chipper is fish-and-chippers.

Words near fish-and-chipper in the dictionary

  1. fish wrapper
  2. fish wrappers
  3. fish wraps
  4. fish'd
  5. fish-and-chip
  6. fish-and-chipper
  7. fish-and-chipperies
  8. fish-and-chippers
  9. fish-and-chippery
  10. fish-and-chippies
  11. fish-and-chippy

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