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fry

1  [frahy] verb, fried, fry⋅ing, noun, plural fries.
Use fry in a Sentence
–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

fry

2  [frahy]
–noun, plural fry.
1. the young of fish.
2. the young of various other animals, as frogs.
3. people; individuals, esp. children: games that are fun for the small fry.
Origin:
1325–75; ME frie, fry seed, descendant, perh. < ON frjō seed; c. Sw frö, Goth fraiw seed

Fry

  [frahy]
–noun
Christopher, 1907–2005, English playwright.
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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.]
fry 2   (frī)   
pl.n.  

    1. Small fish, especially young, recently hatched fish.

    2. The young of certain other animals.

  2. Individuals, especially young or insignificant persons: "These pampered public school boys . . . had managed to evade the long prison sentences that lesser fry were serving" (Noel Annan).


[Middle English fri, probably from Anglo-Norman frie, from frier, to rub, from Latin fricāre.]
Fry   (frī)   
British playwright who revitalized modern verse drama with his comic and religious works, such as A Phoenix Too Frequent (1946) and Curtmantle (1962).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
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).

fry  (n.)
"young fish," 1293, from Anglo-Fr. frei, from O.Fr. frai "spawn," from froier "to rub, spawn (by rubbing abdomen on sand)." First applied to human offspring 14c. in Scot., though OED traces this usage to O.N. frjo, fræ "seed, offspring."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

fry
1. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic smoke.
2. To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware. Never used of software or humans, but compare fried.

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