Frying is the cooking of food with oil as the heat transfer medium. Due to the higher temperature of oil compared with water-based cooking, the cooking time is much shorter.

Deep frying is a frying process where the food is completely immersed in oil.

Frying is also the process of consuming illicit substances like Acid, or dipping marijuana in another drug to enhance the high, or using cough syrup to get high.

Frying a person is slang for executing a criminal in the electric chair.