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fried

  [frahyd]
Use fried in a Sentence
–adjective
1. cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
2. Slang.
a. drunk; inebriated.
b. intoxicated from drugs; high.
c. exhausted or incapacitated through intemperance; burned-out.
–verb
3. pt. and pp. of fry 1 .

Fried

  [freed; Ger. freet]
–noun
Al⋅fred Her⋅mann  [al-frid hur-muhn; Ger. ahl-freyt her-mahn] , 1864–1921, Austrian writer and journalist: Nobel peace prize 1911.

fry

1  [frahy] verb, fried, fry⋅ing, noun, plural fries.
–verb (used with object)
1. to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
2. Slang. to execute by electrocution in an electric chair.
–verb (used without object)
3. to undergo cooking in fat or oil.
4. Slang. to die by electrocution in an electric chair.
–noun
5. a dish of something fried.
6. a piece of french-fried potato.
7. a party or gathering at which the chief food is fried, frequently outdoors: a fish fry.
Origin:
1250–1300; 1925–30 for def. 2; ME frien < AF, OF frire < L frīgere to fry

Related forms:
fry⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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fried   (frīd)   
v.  Past tense and past participle of fry1.
adj.   Slang

  1. Drunk or intoxicated.

  2. Tired out; exhausted.

fry 1   (frī)   
v.   fried (frīd), fry·ing, fries (frīz)

v.   tr.

  1. To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.

  2. Slang To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current: "a power surge to the computer that fried a number of sensitive electronic components" (Erik Sandberg-Diment).

v.   intr.

  1. To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.

  2. Slang To undergo execution in an electric chair.

n.   pl. fries (frīz)

  1. A French fry. Often used in the plural.

  2. A dish of a fried food.

  3. A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten: a fish fry.


[Middle English frien, from Old French frire, from Latin frīgere.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
fried

  1. mod.
    alcohol or drug intoxicated. (See also brain-burned; crisp; southern-fried.) : How the hell did you get so fried?
  2. mod.
    sunburned. : Man, is that babe fried!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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fry

  1. in.
    to die in the electric chair. (Underworld.) : The DA is determined that you will fry.
  2. tv.
    to execute someone in the electric chair. (Underworld.) : They're gonna fry you for this.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

fry  (v.)
c.1290, from O.Fr. frire, from L. frigere "to roast or fry," from PIE *bhreu- (cf. Skt. bhrjjati "roasts, bharjanah "roasting;" Pers. birishtan "to roast;" Gk. phrygein "to roast, bake"). Meaning "execute in the electric chair" is U.S. slang from 1929. To go out of the frying pan into the fire is first attested in Thomas More (1532).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

fried
1. Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch" (see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see friode, SED and LER. However, this term is also used metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.
2. Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or excuse. "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in." Especially common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today, I'm very short on sleep."
[The Jargon File]
(1996-04-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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