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pie

/paɪ/

noun

Meaning

  • A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

    "The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert."

  • Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

    "Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato."

  • (Northeastern US) A pizza.

  • The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

  • (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.

  • An especially badly bowled ball.

  • A pie chart.

  • The vulva.

verb

Meaning

  • To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

    "I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board."

  • To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

  • (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.