chicken-fried
Britishadjective
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(of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
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informal, oft derogatory variant of countrified Compare Southern-fried
Etymology
Origin of chicken-fried
sense 2 from chicken-fried steak , a popular dish of the Southern US
Example Sentences
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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
For many truckers, the restaurant, which serves items like chicken-fried steak with eggs and bacon, is considered the best in all of California, Eater L.A. reports.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023
“I just missed chicken-fried steak. I missed Mexican food, and I missed chili,” she told the Houston Chronicle.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
It looked like a chicken-fried steak, with a smooth, detached-in-places exoskeleton of carb.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022
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
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