fish-and-chipper

English

Etymology

From fish and chips +‎ -er.

Noun

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

  1. (Ireland, slang) A chip shop
    • 2011 April 25, Gardiner M. Weir, A World of Dreams: Scots-Irish Short Stories and Poems‎[1], PublishAmerica, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2013 April, Zoe Miller, The Compromise‎[2], Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      I could get thirty shillings in the local fish-and-chipper on a Saturday night.
    • 2015 March 3, Éamonn MacThomáis, Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin‎[3], The O'Brien Press, →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!
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