Usually means: Heat that makes food crackle.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sizzle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sizzle: Merriam-Webster
  3. sizzle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sizzle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sizzle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sizzle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sizzle, sizzle: Wordnik
  8. sizzle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sizzle: Wiktionary
  10. sizzle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sizzle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sizzle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sizzle: Dictionary.com
  14. sizzle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sizzle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sizzle (selector engine), Sizzle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sizzle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sizzle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sizzle: Rhymezone
  20. Sizzle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sizzle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sizzle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sizzle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sizzle: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sizzle, sizzle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sizzle, the sizzle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sizzled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To make the sound of water boiling on a hot surface.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To cook (something) in a manner which causes that sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To be exciting or dazzling.
noun:  (countable) The sound of water boiling on a hot surface.
noun:  (countable, informal) The process of being cooked which involves that sound.
noun:  (uncountable) Zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.
noun:  Ellipsis of sizzle reel. [A short promotional video, particularly one showing off the work of a videographer or animator.]

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