pie
/paɪ/ noun B1- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.) · 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.
- A pizza.
- A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
- The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- An especially badly bowled ball.
- A pie chart.
- Something very easy; a piece of cake.
Plural pies
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie—”
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
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