Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish/Welsh) a fish and chip shop.

1976		N. Jordan Night in Tunisia in Coll. Fiction (1997) 19: ‘Let’s go inside,’ he said, just as it was getting dark and the last of the queue filed from the chipper .
1992		D. Jarman diary 8 Aug. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 186: In Hythe we waited and waited for the breaded plaice in the chipper.
1994		(con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 44: We recognized the priest instantly as he passed the chipper window.
2001		N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 175: They leave the shop and run [...] down the alleyway adjacent to the chipper.
2017		Guardian CiF 20 Feb. 🌐 ‘Arsenal were shite today, saw a bloke get a box outside a chipper on Saturday’.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 71: [A] chipper in Drimnagh.