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definition of chippy
nouncolloquial term for a chip shop
There are still a fair number of chip shops around, but they all seem to shut quite early on in the evening. Our local chippy may well open earlier, but they shut well before pub closing time, at around 10pm.
Submitted by: Dr. Adem Rimpapa from Germany on 14/07/2010 00:53:00
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