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chip pan

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noun

  1. a deep pan for frying potato chips, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One witness said it smelled like a chip pan, like the smell of grease heating up.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

According to Mr Tordoff's daughter, Karen McKinley, her father, a retired council worker, had fallen asleep and left a chip pan unattended.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023

York father-of-two Barry Tordoff ended up homeless following the blaze which was caused by an unattended chip pan.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023

The death of Lisa Faulkner's character Helen Flynn in a chip pan fryer was the most complained about TV moment of 2002.

From BBC ● May 4, 2015

The only thing in the whole world to be glad about was that Mary had to fill the chip pan all by herself.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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