Definition of "fry"

A method of cooking food.

1. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.  examples

2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.  examples

3. (obsolete) to simmer; to boil  quotations

   Quotations

   • With crackling flames a caldron fries.

     1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

   • Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry

     1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

To be affected by extreme heat or current.

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.  examples

2. (chiefly US, transitive, intransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair.

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

(usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.  examples

(Ireland, Britain, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.  examples

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

(usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.  examples

(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.

Young fish; fishlings.  quotations  examples

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

(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

(UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.  examples

A kind of sieve.  examples

A drain.  examples