fried

Cooked by frying.

Adjective

  1. Cooked by frying.
  2. Fried with the yolk unbroken.
    • He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
  3. Cooked in a deep fryer or pressure fryer or the like after being coated (breaded) in batter; compare deep-fried.
    • a bucket of fried chicken
    • Innawong et al. (2006) conducted experiments to study the effect of using nitrogen gas on the quality of fried chicken nuggets during pressure frying in terms of moisture retention and reduction in fat […] - 2009,...
    • The level of seasoning is lower when the chicken is to be open kettle fried; this is because the open kettle-fried chicken has a thicker coating of breading than chicken to be pressure fried. […] Gently shake the fry...
  4. Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
    • It looks like your motherboard is fried.
    • Optics - totally fried. And let's not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?. - 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Heretic:
  5. Stoned; under the influence of drugs.
    • Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.

    Synonyms: blazed high baked blitzed blown chemically impaired chopped cut drugged drugged-out fuckered up fried gassed geeked high as a kite hepped up hopped up monged munted trolleyed toasted lifted lit off one's box

  6. Drunk; under the influence of alcohol.
    • The police had to send a squad car / When Daddy got fried on vodka - 1955, Noël Coward, What's Going to Happen to the Tots?:

    Synonyms: inebriated toasted Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk

  7. Extremely tired due to exertion or stress; exhausted.
    • After nearly twelve hours at the office plus a nightmare commute home, I was fried and couldn’t think of anything but sleep.

    Synonyms: bushed weary bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary exhausted fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed jaded languid enervated out of gas played out run-down

Forms

more fried most fried

Derived

American fried potatoes chicken-fried chicken-fried steak combination fried rice cottage fried potatoes country-fried country-fried steak deep-fat-fried deep fried deep-fried French-fried french-fried potato French-fried potato French fried potato french fried potato french-fried potatoes French fried potatoes French-fried potatoes french fried potatoes frickle fried bread friedcake fried chicken fried chicken mushroom

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of fry