fry cook
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2.5
- noun
- /fraɪ kʊk/
- US
:
cocinero de frituras
- She's been a fry cook at the local diner for over ten years, preparing delicious meals for customers.
- a fry cook job
- worked as a fry cook
And then when the holidays came around, I was a fry cook, a bouncer at a gay bar and a personal trainer.
- And then when the holidays came around, I was a fry cook, a bouncer at a gay bar and a personal trainer.
Examples
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I've been your fry cook for 40 years.
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She was a fry cook in the cafeteria.
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"If you work hard enough as a fry cook, maybe you can become a manager!"
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I was the fry cook.
Blog text (17) -
But I heard he works sometimes... at the local diner as a fry cook.
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Not every fry cook is a chef.
Blog text (21) -
There's room to move as a fry cook.
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His summer job was fry cook at Friendly's in Chestnut Hill.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm a fry cook.
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In the window of the diner, near the door, a piece of cardboard had been taped up, saying, "WANTED: FRY COOK."
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
356
1.0
A person who prepares food at home or at work
A cook or server in a small diner
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cook who prepares fried foods' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fry' (to cook in hot oil) + 'cook' (a person who prepares meals). This agentive compound pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fry cook comes from the words fry and cook. Picture someone standing at a hot fryer, turning golden fries and chicken, so it means 'a cook who makes fried food'.