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Answer for the clue "Snack cake that can be deep-fried ", 7 letters:
twinkie

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative case form of Twinkie English) 2 An actor or actress who is considered to be no more than eye candy

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Twinkie is a racial pejorative used by most American Indians to refer to a European American , with little or no social or blood links to any tribe, who claims to be an American Indian. Particularly applies to those who claim to be shaman , healers, or ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snack food, supposedly invented and named 1930 by Jimmy Dewar, baker for the Chicago branch of Continental Baking Co. (later Hostess); said to have been inspired by twinkle .

Usage examples of twinkie.

Twinkie lay on the greasy paper sack that had contained her liverwurst sandwich.

He had been buying Hostess Twinkies at a convenience store two blocks away and feeling very sorry for himself.

There were crumbled cellophane wrappers from Twinkies and some empty Sugar Pops boxes, some tattered clothes, torn comic books, but otherwise nothing.

And besides, they had a fierce yellow sun and a case of Budweiser and potato chips and Cheez Whiz and Twinkies and the restless Atlantic Ocean.

On the table are more stacks of dirty dishes, a squeeze-bottle of mustard, sprays of crumbs (there's a Van Halen cassette lying in one of these), an aerosol can of whipped cream, two bottles of catsup, one mostly empty and one mostly full, open pizza boxes littered with crusts, bread-wrappers, Twinkies wrappers, and a Doritos bag pulled down over an empty Pepsi bottle like a weird condom.

He rose early, made coffee, and found four Twinkies abandoned in his otherwise empty bread box to round out his breakfast.

Twinkie did buddy up to quite a few sorority girls, and one of them might have asked her to track down that license plate number .

There would be time to eat as many Twinkies and Ring-Dings and Devil Dogs as he could get his hands on, and time to sit on the back porch reading Lucky Starr and the Moons of Mercury.

When Hugh did our shopping he invariably brought back a variety of Ding Dongs, Pinwheels, Twinkies, and other sweets for her.

He Who Walks like Cougar at Night called people over to hear the funny name, and after they all had a good laugh, they loaded the network truck with frozen dinners and shrimp bottled in their own cocktail sauce and Captain Crunch sugar-coated cereal, and seven cases of Twinkies.

If a few laughs would bring Twinkie back to earth, I'd go out and buy joke books by the dozen.

It's just that I've been majoring in Twinkie for the past several years.

Can you imagine me in one of those tent dresses, stuffing Twinkies down my throat and belching like a sow in heat?

She was one tough cookie sometimes, but that's probably what Twinkie needed.

Now the egg was gone, the tuna fish sandwich was gone, the chips were gone, and the Twinkies were gone.