<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of, relating to, or characteristic of France or its inhabitants, language, or culture: French cooking.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(used with a plural verb) The people of France collectively: Philosophies advanced by the French during the Age of Reason profoundly influenced the American Founding Fathers.</li><li>A Romance language spoken in France, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and in areas colonized after 1500 by France: F, Fr.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) (often lowercase) To prepare (food) according to a French method.</li><li>(often lowercase) To cut (snap beans) into slivers or thin strips before cooking.</li><li>(often lowercase) To trim the meat from the end of (a rib chop or chicken breast with attached wing): For this recipe, the chops on the rack of lamb are Frenched about an inch. To french a chicken breast, scrape down the meat on the wing to expose the bone.</li><li>(often lowercase) To prepare (meat) for cooking by slicing it into strips and pounding.</li></ul><p><strong>Slang</strong></p><ul><li>To short-sheet (a bed).</li><li>(often lowercase) Slang: To give (someone) a French kiss: Her parents found her frenching her boyfriend on the porch swing after curfew.</li><li>(often lowercase) Slang: Vulgar: To perform fellatio or cunnilingus on.</li></ul>