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🍗 To cook in oil 🖼️ To distort an image
to deep-fry

to deep-fry

8.9
Change an image a lot by making its colours too bright and adding grainy noise
  • verb
  • /dip-fraɪ/
  • Slang
translation icon : editar en exceso
  • He deep-fried the photo until the colors and noise looked completely ridiculous.

Examples

  • Internet users often deep-fry memes to heighten their absurd, surreal humor.

  • During the livestream she started deep-frying audience screenshots for comedic effect.

  • Did you see that deep-fried meme?

  • She loves to deep-fry her photos for fun.

  • Many Instagram users deep-fry their pictures to create funny and distorted images that go viral.

  • He enjoys deep-frying memes, making them more vibrant and comically exaggerated.

  • After deep-frying the image, it became a hilarious depiction that everyone shared online.

Synonyms

to overegg the pudding
vsto deep-fry
  • UK
9.9

To add too many details and ruin something

is a heavy image edit that exaggerates colors and artifacts to create distortion

Antonyms

natural
∞ 1.0

Not made or changed by people, coming from nature like sunlight

unfiltered
10 4.8

Shown or said openly without hiding anything

How Edited

to deep-fry
  • Slang
8.9
to overdevelop
  • Specialized
7.4
to photoshop
5 4.8
to edit
337 1.5

Surface Forms

deep-fry infinitive
deep-fried past
deep-fried past participle
deep-frying present participle
deep-fries third person singular

Morphology

deep-fry = deep + fry (semi-transparent) = deep + fry

A metaphorical compounding extending the cooking sense to intensive image processing; components hint at meaning but cultural knowledge is needed.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the slang deep-fry is to think of an image being 'cooked' too much: deep ('very') and fry ('to cook') give the idea of editing a picture until the colors and brightness are exaggerated and the result looks extreme and funny.