chicken-fried steak

noun

A Southern US dish of tenderized cube steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried.

Meanings

nounchicken-fried steak (countable and uncountable, plural chicken-fried steaks)

plural chicken-fried steaks

  1. countableuncountableA Southern US dish of tenderized cube steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried.

    Synonyms: country-fried steak

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA Southern US dish of tenderized cube steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried.

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Chicago

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