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Frederic never had something to eat out (6)

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I believe the answer is:

chopin

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'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).

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(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" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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