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View synonyms for fish fry

fish fry

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fish fry1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
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Example Sentences

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

Mammy's done give her fish-fry and ice-cream festible, and she cleahed enough to pay the weddin' expenses.

Those brigands might justly have been taken for a little party of peaceable rustics assembled for a fish-fry or pecan gathering.

Mr. Thrombley insists that it is necessary for me to go to this fish-fry or whatever it is immediately.

"With as good a will as I ever carried to a fish fry," said Billy.

When you empty a barrel of fish fry into a new stream there is a sudden sharpening of their struggle for existence.

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