fry

Plural: fries

Noun

• English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
• English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
• a young person of either sex
• A fried piece of cut potato.
• A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• The liver of a lamb.
• A lamb or calf testicle.
• A state of excitement.
• Young fish; fishlings.
• Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• A swarm, especially of something small.
• The spawn of frogs.
• A kind of sieve.
• A drain, usually made of brushwood.

Verb

Verb Forms: fried, frying, fries

• To cook food in hot fat or oil.
• be excessively hot
• cook on a hot surface using fat
  • "fry the pancakes"
• kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
• A method of cooking food.
• To cook (something) in hot fat.
• A method of cooking food.
• To cook in hot fat.
• A method of cooking food.
• To simmer; to boil.
• To be affected by extreme heat or current.
• To suffer because of too much heat.
• To be affected by extreme heat or current.
• To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.
• To be affected by extreme heat or current.
• To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• To make a brushwood drain.

Examples

• He's guilty of murder: he's going to fry.
• I am frying the eggs.
• If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
• She planned to fry her opponent’s chances with a surprise bingo.
• Taking drugs for years fried his brain.
• The eggs are frying.
• to be in a fry
• You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.

Synonyms

child, Christopher Fry, electrocute, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, Roger Eliot Fry, Roger Fry, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster, Rocky Mountain oyster, chip, french fry, fry-up, liver, prairie oyster, tendergroin

Anagrams of fry