fish-and-chip
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."