fry
/fraɪ/
verb
- To cook food in hot oil or fat.
- I like to fry eggs for breakfast.
- She fried the chicken until it was golden brown.
- Be careful not to fry the vegetables too long or they will burn.
- To be extremely hot or to burn in the sun.
- The pavement was so hot it could fry an egg.
- We will fry if we stay out in this heat without sunscreen.
- After an hour at the beach, I felt like I was frying.
- To execute someone by electric chair (informal).
- In some old movies, criminals were sentenced to fry in the electric chair.
- The prisoner was scheduled to fry at midnight.
- He narrowly escaped being fried for his crime.
Synonyms
noun
- Young fish, especially recently hatched.
- The fisherman released the fry back into the water to grow.
- The pond was full of tiny fry swimming near the surface.
- Salmon fry hatch in freshwater rivers before migrating to the sea.
- A dish of fried food, especially French fries.
- She dipped her fry in ketchup.
- I ordered a burger with a side of fry.
- The restaurant serves the best fry in town.
- Something small or insignificant (often in the phrase 'small fry').
- Don't worry about those minor problems; they are small fry.
- The big companies ignored the small fry in the market.
- He was just a small fry in the criminal organization.