noun [C,U]
1 fruit baked in a dish with pastry on the bottom, sides and top:
a slice of apple pie * Help yourself to some more pie. * a pie dish
2 (especially BrE) meat, vegetables, etc. baked in a dish with pastry on the bottom, sides and top:
a steak and kidney pie
seealsoMINCEPIE, PORKPIE, SHEPHERD'SPIE
seealsoCUSTARDPIE
IDIOMS
a piece / slice / share of the pie (AmE) a share of sth such as money, profits, etc.
pie in the sky (informal) an event that sb talks about that seems very unlikely to happen:
This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky.
moreatAMERICANadj., EASYadj., EAT, FINGERn., NICE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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