fry🔊

To cook (something) in hot fat.

To cook in hot fat.

(obsolete) To simmer; to boil.

To be affected by extreme heat or current.

(colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.

(slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair. (Capital punishment)

(informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic), often with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

(chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato. +

(Ireland, British, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. +

(Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb. +

(US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle. +

(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.

Young fish; fishlings.

(now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.

(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

(UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.

A kind of sieve.

A drain, usually made of brushwood.

(dialectal) To make a brushwood drain.