fish fry

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noun
  1. a picnic or other gathering at which fish are fried and eaten.

  2. fried fish.

Origin of fish fry

1
An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

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How to use fish fry in a sentence

  • Missing is the appetite to Be Somebody that seems to drive so many politicians to the next fish fry.

    Run, Jenny, Run! | Kathleen Parker | December 11, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Mammy's done give her fish-fry and ice-cream festible, and she cleahed enough to pay the weddin' expenses.

    The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor | Annie Fellows Johnston
  • Those brigands might justly have been taken for a little party of peaceable rustics assembled for a fish-fry or pecan gathering.

    Roads of Destiny | O. Henry
  • Mr. Thrombley insists that it is necessary for me to go to this fish-fry or whatever it is immediately.

    Lone Star Planet | Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
  • "With as good a will as I ever carried to a fish fry," said Billy.

    A Man of Honor | George Cary Eggleston
  • When you empty a barrel of fish fry into a new stream there is a sudden sharpening of their struggle for existence.

    The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth Ross