Usually means: Waste time, money, or resources.
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  1. fritter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fritter, fritter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fritter, fritter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fritter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fritter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fritter, fritter: Wordnik
  7. fritter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fritter: Wiktionary
  9. fritter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fritter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fritter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fritter, fritter: Dictionary.com
  13. fritter (n.), fritter (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fritter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fritter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fritter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fritter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fritter: Rhymezone
  19. fritter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fritter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fritter: Free Dictionary
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  1. fritter: Encyclopedia

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  1. fritter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fritter: Urban Dictionary

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  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
noun:  A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
verb:  (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
verb:  (transitive) To sinter.
verb:  (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
verb:  (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

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