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fry verb- to put to death by electrocution US, 1928
- You don’t know what it feels like, waitin’ in your cell to find out if you goin’ to fry or not. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 267, 1946
- If they don’t fly, they’ll fry,” the professor said — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 85, 1959
- For he was one of the mob who was caught on a job / and the state said he must fry. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 82, 1966
- Well, they fried Tough Tony last night / The man who didn’t know the meaning of fright. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 117, 1976
- Swell. And the punctual guy fries in the chair for rape. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 36, 1993
- “If they [the Menendez brothers] were black, they’d be fried by now.” — Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chicks, p. 12, 1997
- You sonofabitch! You’re gonna fry! — Something About Mary, 1998
- In 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California, promis-ing to punish the mouthy students acting up in Berkeley and to fry the inmates on San Quentin’s death row. — Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall, p. 116, 1998
- Move ’em to Texas, fry ’em up — Traffic, 2000
- in computing, to fail completely US
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 69, 1983
- to use and be under the influence of LSD US
- — People Magazine, p. 72, 19 July 1993
- — Linda Meyar, Teenspeak, p. 31, 1994
- of a drug, to destroy or impair the mind by extreme intoxication; of a drug-user, to experience the consequences of LSD US
- Unfortunately, by the time Brian was recording these songs his mind had really been fried by acid. — Barney Hoskyns, Waiting For The Sun, pp. 127–128, 1996
- to alter the mind irreparably US, 1972
- [T]he [Rolling] Stones and feedback and Trout Mask Replica [by Captain Beefheart]. All these were milestones, each one fried my brain a little further[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 12, 1971
- to straighten your hair, chemically or with heat US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 11, 1945
- You ain’t had your hair fried, is you boy? Where’d you get them pretty waves. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 115, 1946
- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 235, 1948: “A glossary of Harlemisms”
- I mean, she went to the beauty shop to have her hair fried, oiled, curled, or straightened to make it look like Lady Clairol[.] — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 65, 1998
- in motor racing, to overheat (an engine or component) US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 66, 1993
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