1. Cook in hot fat or oil
   "fry the pancakes"
    
2. [informal] Be excessively hot
   "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
    
3. [informal] Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
   "The serial killer was fried";
   - electrocute

1. A fish that is young
   "The aquarium was filled with fry darting about";
   - young fish
    
2. A dish that is fried or an event where fried food is served
   "We're having a fish fry this weekend"

1. English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (1907-2005)
   - Christopher Fry
    
2. English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
   - Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry

Derived forms: fried, frying, fries, Fries

Type of: art critic, cook, dramatist, fish, heat, heat up, hot up [Brit, informal], kill, offspring, painter, playwright, young

Part of: Bloomsbury Group

Encyclopedia: Fry, Martin