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Noun fry has 3 senses
  1. Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry - English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
    --1 is a kind of painter; art critic
    --1 is a member of Bloomsbury Group
  2. Fry, Christopher Fry - English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
    --2 is a kind of dramatist, playwright
  3. child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
    --3 is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
    --3 has parts: child's body
    --3 has particulars:
     bairn; buster; changeling; child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child; foster-child, fosterling; imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag; kiddy; orphan; peanut; pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny; poster child; preschooler; silly; sprog; toddler, yearling, tot, bambino; urchin; waif, street child
,Verb fry has 3 senses
  1. fry - be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
    --1 is one way to     heat, hot up, heat up
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. fry - cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes"
    --2 is one way to     cook
    Derived forms: noun fryer1, noun frier1, noun frying1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs fry the vegetables
  3. electrocute, fry - kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted"
    --3 is one way to kill
    Sample sentence:
    They want to fry the prisoners
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