fish-and-chip

See also: fish and chip

English

Alternative forms

• fish and chip

Noun

fish-and-chip

1. attributive form of fish and chips
   • 1977, The Accountant, volume 177:

     Efforts by Horn and Hardart to diversify into gourmet restaurants, office catering services, a fish-and-chip chain and drive-in ‘Burger Kings’ proved unavailing, resulting in a nugatory profit in 1975 and a loss of $2·7 million last year.

   • 1999, David W[illiam] McFadden, An Innocent in Scotland: More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters, McClelland & Stewart, published 2016, →ISBN:

     A few hours later, twenty miles west of Dumfries, on a dark, miserable Saturday afternoon, I pulled up in the town of Castle Douglas, hoping for a bite to eat. But the Indian restaurant was closed, the Chinese restaurant was closed, the fish-and-chip store was closed, and the big old Douglas Arms Hotel, which Morton wrote about so enthusiastically, refused to serve me, because everybody was getting ready for a large party of Danish veterinarians who had booked the place for their evening meal, several hours from now.

   • 2009, Jan Morris, Contact! A Book of Encounters, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, page 189:

     I had a pre-Christmas luncheon at Harry Ramsden’s Fish and Chip Shop at Guiseley, where the menu was dominated by Harry’s Challenge, a fish-and-chip dish so gigantic that if you got through it you were given a free pudding and a signed certificate.