chicken-fry

American  

[chik-uhn-frahy] / ˈtʃɪk ənˌfraɪ /

verb (used with object)

chicken-fried, chicken-frying

1. to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat.

   chicken-fried steak.

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noun

1. food or a meal prepared in this way.

   He claims to do the best chicken-fry in Texas.

Etymology

Origin of chicken-fry

First recorded in 1895–1900, for an earlier sense

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Example Sentences

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chicken-fried chicken-frying

The menu encompasses everything you could imagine, from hefty breakfast platters and patty melts to chicken-fried steak and pot roast.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

It looked like a chicken-fried steak, with a smooth, detached-in-places exoskeleton of carb.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

I was never a student of it, any more than I am a student of chicken-fried steak or peach ice cream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2021

Threadgill’s was the spot where you wooed a first date with chicken-fried steak and pecan pie.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2020

Instead there is everything you might eat if eating had no bodily consequences—the cheese fries, the chicken-fried steaks, the fudge-laden desserts—only here every bite must be paid for, one way or another, in human discomfort.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Beloved daughters of God!” she shouts, her Texas twang chicken-frying each word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

When Tyler asked a server for more detail on how the dish was prepared, his suspicions were confirmed: the restaurant readily owned up to outsourcing its chicken-frying to the national chain.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2019

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