Cheap As Chips; BELLS LANE FISH BAR, DRUIDS HEATH **.Byline: GRAHAM YOUNG CLOSE to the A435 Maypole island gateway to Worcestershire's beautiful countryside, you'll find this chippy chip·py or chip·pie n. pl. chip·pies 1. A chipping sparrow. 2. Slang A woman prostitute. [From chip2.] behind the Phoenix pub. The grotty grot·ty adj. grot·ti·er, grot·ti·est Chiefly British Slang Very unpleasant; miserable. [Alteration of grotesque. row of mostly-shuttered shops scarily resembled the set of a Hollywood zombie movie at sunset. My chatty and bright-eyed server scooped up a 70p bag of deep-yellow chips which crashed through the 500g line on my in-car scales like a bag of cement. They tasted better than expected, but a mere handful was enough for me. GRAHAM YOUNG |
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