fry

Pronunciation

• enPR: frī
• IPA ^(key): /fraɪ/
• SAMPA: /fraI/

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Verb

Plain form fry

Third-person singular fries

Past tense fried

Past participle fried

Present participle frying

Onions frying in a pan

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you fry something, you cook it in a pan on a stove with hot oil.

   Do you think we should fry the eggs or boil them?

Noun

Singular fry

Plural fries

Fries

1. (countable) A fry is a young fish.
2. (countable) A fry is a single french fry.

   Pass me a fry, I want to see if they taste good.

Related words

• small fry
• french fries