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   Fry

   /frī/

   

   verb

   • 1. cook (food) in hot fat or oil, typically in a shallow pan: "she fried a rasher of bacon, a sausage and a slice of bread"
   • ▪ (of food) be cooked by placing in hot fat in a shallow pan: "put half a dozen steaks to fry in a pan"
   • ▪ (of a person) burn or overheat: informal "with the sea and sun and wind you'll fry if you don't take care"
   • 2. destroy: informal "drugs fry the brain"
   • ▪ execute or be executed by electrocution: US "they fry cop killers in Texas"

   noun

   • 1. a meal of meat or other food cooked by frying.
   • ▪ a social gathering where fried food is served: "you'll explore islands and stop for a fish fry"
   • ▪ another term for French fry

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French frire, from Latin frigere.

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   What does Fry mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of FRY is to cook in a pan or on a griddle over heat especially with the use of fat.

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   What is the plural of Fry?

   • , plural fries. a dish of something fried. a piece of french-fried potato. a fish fry. a salmon fry. a young animal of certain other kinds, as frogs and oysters. The prime minister had to bank on the cooperation of lesser fry. Christopher, 1907–2005, English playwright. informal. slang. informal.

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   What does fried mean in slang?

   • , fried, fry·ing. to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil. Slang. to execute by electrocution in an electric chair. , fried, fry·ing. to undergo cooking in fat or oil. Slang. to die by electrocution in an electric chair. , plural fries. a dish of something fried. a piece of french-fried potato. a fish fry.

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   What does frying a meal mean?

   • The act of frying a meal, especially breakfast. He always fried up a good breakfast in the morning.. She peeled the skin off the apples for the fruit salad. To divide or cut something from a larger piece. He sliced the meat off the bone.

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   B1. to cook food in hot oil or fat: Fry the mushrooms in a little butter. informal figurative You'll fry (= burn) if you lie in the sun all day. Fewer examples. Remember to cut off the fat before you fry the steak. First, fry the garlic. Next, add the ginger.

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