noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A heated cooking pan or appliance used to deep-fry foods.

Verb

1. 1
   To cook (food) by deep-frying. transitive
2. 2
   cook by immersing in fat wordnet
3. 3
   To alter a photograph using filters and image compression to make it appear strangely colored for a humorous effect. Internet, transitive

   "That meme is deep-fried, which is what makes it so funny."

Synonyms

All synonyms

deep-fat-frydeep fryerdeep-fat fryerfrench-fry

Antonyms

All antonyms

shallow-fry

Example

More examples

"That meme is deep-fried, which is what makes it so funny."

Related phrases

deep fryerdeep-fried

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