stir fry

1. 1.

   fry very quickly over high heat

   “stir-fry the vegetables in a wok”

   Broaderfry

   cooking

Questions about stir fry

What does stir fry mean?

stir fry means "fry very quickly over high heat".

Is stir fry a common word?

stir fry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.