refried beans

1. 1.

   dried beans cooked and mashed and then fried in lard with various seasonings

   Synonymsfrijoles refritos

   Broaderdish

   Mexico

Questions about refried beans

What does refried beans mean?

refried beans means "dried beans cooked and mashed and then fried in lard with various seasonings".

What is another word for refried beans?

Close synonyms include frijoles refritos. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is refried beans a common word?

refried beans is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.