Meanings
adjectiveAmerican pie (comparative more American pie, superlative most American pie)
comparative more American pie · superlative most American pie
- Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.
1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14
Origin
Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.
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American pie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/American%20pie
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