Usually means: Insignificant person or minor issue.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word small fry:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. small fry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. small-fry, small fry: Merriam-Webster
  3. small fry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. small fry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. small fry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. small fry: Vocabulary.com
  7. small-fry: Wordnik
  8. small fry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. small-fry, small fry: Wiktionary
  10. small fry: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. small-fry, small fry: Dictionary.com
  12. Small Fry (album), Small Fry (book), Small Fry (film), Small Fry (short story), Small Fry (song), Small Fry, Small fry (fish): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. small fry: Rhymezone
  14. SMALL FRY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. small fry: FreeDictionary.org
  16. small fry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. small fry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small fry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small fry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small fry: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (small fry)

noun:  One or more small or immature fish.
noun:  (informal) One or more children.
noun:  (idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

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