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Adjective: fried  frId
  1. Cooked by frying in fat
    "Other booths offered deep-fried pickles";
    - deep-fried
     
  2. [N. Amer, informal] Extremely exhausted
    "the day's shopping left her fried";
    - knackered [Brit, informal], drained, zonked [informal], zonked out [informal], stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ, informal], deadbeat [Brit, informal], shagged out [Brit, informal], shagged [Brit, informal], shattered [Brit, informal], exhausted, dog-tired [informal], fagged [Brit, informal], fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone, shot [informal], pooped [N. Amer, informal]
     
  3. [N. Amer, informal] Very drunk
    "I had travelling money and got fried in the bar downstairs";
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], lit up [slang], trolleyed [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], legless [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], screwed [informal], paralytic [Brit], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], stinko [informal], hammered [informal], trashed [informal], pickled [informal], wasted [informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], tanked up [informal], steaming [informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], out of it [Brit, informal], blitzed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], bombed [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], drunk, pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
     
  4. (of electronic equipment) broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge
    "looks like your motherboard is fried"
Verb: fry  frI
  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

See also: cooked, drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal], tired

Type of: cook, heat, heat up, hot up [Brit, informal], kill

Encyclopedia: Fried, Michael

Fry, Michael