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noun
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
- The family had steak and kidney for dinner and cherry for dessert.
- Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
- Shepherd's is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
- (context, Northeastern US) pizza, Pizza.
- (context, printing) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- (context, cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- (obsolete) (British India) a unit of currency, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/3 of a paisa.
Translations: - Dutch: pizza(nl)m
- French: tarte(fr)f
- German: Torte(de)f
- Italian: pasticcio(it)m, confusione(it)f
- Spanish: pizza(es)f
verb (pie, d)
- (transitive) 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 the chairman of the board.
- (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
(trans-top, to hit in the face with a pie)
- Finnish: kakuttaa
- French: entarter
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(trans-top, to go around (a corner) in a guarded manner)
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Etymology: From , unknown origin.
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