Definition of "chicken-fried" []

• Coated with batter and seasoned flour and fried: "endless iron skillets overflowing with chicken-fried steak” ( Joel Achenbach). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And refried meat cutlets they called chicken-fried steak."
• "In those pages, Holly had found the family favorites: chili, meat loaf, chicken-fried steak, fried tomatoes, English pea salad."
• "There were the everyday Fiestaware dishes, orange and blue and green, from which they had eaten pancakes and meat loaf and chicken-fried steaks."