"fish and chips" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fish and chip [attributive], fish-and-chip [attributive]
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  1. A meal of fish fried in batter and served with chips (fried potato pieces), popular throughout the Anglosphere, especially in coastal regions. Wikipedia link: fish and chips Tags: countable, plural, singular, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods, Seafood Synonyms: fish-and-chips, fish 'n' chips Derived forms: fish-and-chipper, fish and chippery, fish-and-chippy, yesterday's fish and chips Translations (a meal of fried fish and potatoes): سَمَك وَبَطَاطِس مَقْلِيَّة (samak wa-baṭāṭis maqliyya) (Arabic), 炸魚薯條 (Chinese Cantonese), 炸鱼薯条 (alt: zaa³ jyu⁴⁻² syu⁴ tiu⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 炸魚薯條 (Chinese Mandarin), 炸鱼薯条 (zháyú shǔtiáo) (Chinese Mandarin), steikjafiskur og kips [masculine] (Faroese), fish and chips (Finnish), fish and chips [masculine] (French), fish ’n’ chips [masculine] (French), poisson-frites [masculine] (French), poisson frit avec des frites [masculine] (French), Bratfisch mit Pommes frites [masculine] (German), Fish and Chips [masculine] (German), djúpsteiktur fiskur med frönskum [masculine] (Icelandic), iasc agus sceallóga (Irish), フィッシュ・アンド・チップス (fisshu-ando-chippusu) (Japanese), 피시 앤드 칩스 (pisi aendeu chipseu) (Korean), فیش اند چیپس (fiš-and-čips) (Persian), fish and chips (Polish), peixe com batatas fritas [masculine] (Portuguese), ры́ба и чи́псы (rýba i čípsy) (Russian), ры́ба с жа́реным карто́фелем (rýba s žárenym kartófelem) (Russian), чи́псы (čípsy) [masculine, plural] (Russian), fit e loetapötetüls (Volapük), pysgodyn a sglodion (Welsh)

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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peixe com batatas fritas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýba i čípsy",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "word": "ры́ба и чи́псы"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýba s žárenym kartófelem",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "word": "ры́ба с жа́реным карто́фелем"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čípsy",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "чи́псы"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "word": "fit e loetapötetüls"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a meal of fried fish and potatoes",
      "word": "pysgodyn a sglodion"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fish and chips"
}

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