Frederic never had something to eat out (6)
I believe the answer is:
chopin
'frederic' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'never had something to eat out' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'something to eat' could be 'chop' (chop is a kind of food) and 'chop' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'in' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chopin that I've seen before include "Composer of mainly piano works" , "Great Polish composer of phonic kind" , "Composer of "Tristesse"" , "Romantic figure" , "his writing noted" .)