Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a fish and chip shop; occas. attrib.

1950		W. Reckless Crime Problem (1967) 430: The local fish and chips joint, ‘the chippy on the turf,’ lost its glamour.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 22: A dirty old scuffer, looking across at the chippy.
1975		A. Bleasdale Scully 190: Les Burns came out of the chippy with some lads.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 21: I took her for some Lillian Gish / Down at the chippy caff.
1980		P.D. James Innocent Blood (1981) 178: All the girls working in the chippie were drawing unemployment benefit.
1985		J. Sullivan ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] We were having a row about whose turn it was to go down the chippy.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 28: Bakers and chippies, the safest places in Edinburgh!
1999		Indep. on Sun. Real Lives 30 May 5: Vikki now works in the local chippy.
2000		Guardian Rev. 1 Jan. 12: I ate fish and chips from the Yorkshire chippie opposite Hampton Court.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 310: Ee’s werkin ternight, in tha chippy in Eastgate.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 168: I stabbed a lassie at the back of a chippy on Old Town Road.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 207: [P]eople going in and out the brightly lit chippy.
2019		A. Parks February’s Son 191: He didn’t go to the chippie. Didn’t want anything to eat.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 895: There is chippie by roundabout. Nice and sunny but batter is soggy.

2. (N.Z.) a potato chip (fry).

1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 27/1: chippie a potato chip.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].