chip shop
noun
plural chip shops
British
: a take-out restaurant that sells fish-and-chips and other fried foods
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Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Each scene is a miniature marvel — a scene in the chip shop conveys loneliness purely through blocking — and the cumulative emotional stakes only stack up as Carriera directs her own screenplay, which possesses no excess.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
The locations have included the sides of buildings, a fish and chip shop sign, a police box, and the bridge of a subway station.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2024
Then came a pelican stooping to scoop up fish on the sign of a fish and chip shop in Walthamstow, east London.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
Rebus will have enjoyed the occasional haggis supper from his local chip shop.
—Angus MacKinnon, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
The organizations that took part in the trial included a wide range of companies and sectors including online retailers, financial service providers, animation studios, housing, marketing firms, healthcare, and a fish and chip shop.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Each scene is a miniature marvel — a scene in the chip shop conveys loneliness purely through blocking — and the cumulative emotional stakes only stack up as Carriera directs her own screenplay, which possesses no excess.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
The locations have included the sides of buildings, a fish and chip shop sign, a police box, and the bridge of a subway station.
—Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2024
Then came a pelican stooping to scoop up fish on the sign of a fish and chip shop in Walthamstow, east London.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
Rebus will have enjoyed the occasional haggis supper from his local chip shop.
—Angus MacKinnon, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
The organizations that took part in the trial included a wide range of companies and sectors including online retailers, financial service providers, animation studios, housing, marketing firms, healthcare, and a fish and chip shop.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
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“Chip shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chip%20shop. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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