Plural of chippie; multiple fish and chips shops, or multiple carpenters or pieces of chipboard depending on regional context.
Standard English plural formation (chippie + -s); the plural form maintains the regional meanings of the singular.
Plurals seem simple, but they reveal how words adapt regionally—'chippies' in London means restaurants, while the same word means workers or materials in Australia, showing how single English words diverge into completely different meanings across oceans.
Plural form carries the gendered pejorative baggage of 'chippie' as British slang for women deemed sexually loose or working-class women in chip shops, conflating occupation with moral judgment.
Use 'chip shops' or 'fish-and-chips workers' for plural references to avoid the gendered pejorative.
["chip shops","fish-and-chips workers"]
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