: to cook (food) in fat or oil [+ obj] ▪ They fried (up) some chicken for dinner. ▪ They fried us some chicken. = They fried some chicken for us. ▪ We had fried eggs and ham for breakfast. [no obj] ▪ We could smell the onions frying. — see also deep-fry, panfry, stir-fry
fish to fry — see 1fish





