skillet

plural skillets

1. UKhistoricalA large and heavy saucepan or frying pan with legs and, usually, a long handle designed for heating food in a fireplace.
2. USA pan for frying, generally large and heavy.

   Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.

   1 more example

   Inside this paper plane Note my words are Navy sealed So here and I quote Taboo and I are in the same boat What's said from Pennywise I guess we all float Sky is the limit, I could die in a minute Got my mind in a skillet Suicide not a mission See the vibe very timid I'm timid and very sad Translated my thoughts and feelings I pivot into the pad

   2018, “Black Balloons”, performed by Denzel Curry

   Synonyms: frying pan

3. USattributivesometimesA dish or meal cooked in such a pan.

   Can you make up a quick skillet hash?

   1 more example

   This is an easy skillet with potatoes and bacon.

present singular third person skillets · participle present skilleting · participle past skilleted · past skilleted

1. USTo cook in a skillet.

   That said, Danton in manhood is probed and skilleted, admired and reviled in a multitude of memoirs written by contemporaries who love him, loathe him or simply stand and watch as the Danton tempest roars past.

   2010, David Lawday, The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life

   1 more example

   Now that the season has arrived in many parts of the country for the nimrods to load their trusty Thirty-Thirties and go forth in quest of the elusive deer, it seems an appropriate time to say a word about the skilleting of venison — which can be a pretty tough and dry proposition if not properly handled.

   1960, The Cattleman, volume 47, page 46