pie

plural pies

1. countableuncountableA 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.

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   SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

   c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

2. countableuncountableAny 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.

3. NortheasternUScountableuncountableA pizza.
4. countableuncountableA 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.
5. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

   It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.

   2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek

   Synonyms: cake

6. countableuncountableball gamesAn especially badly bowled ball.
7. countableuncountableA pie chart.

   Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.

   1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8

8. countableinformaluncountableSomething very easy; a piece of cake.

   Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.

   1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91

9. countableslanguncountableThe vulva.

   Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

   2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238

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   "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.

   1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box

10. countableslanguncountableA kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.

    I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies

    1999 July 13, “Discipline”performed by Gang Starr ft. Total

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    Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper

    1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase

    My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly

    [1998 October 18, “Ebonics”performed by Big L

present singular third person pies · participle present pieing · participle past pied · past pied

1. transitiveTo 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.

2. transitiveTo go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3. UKoftenslangtransitiveTo ignore (someone).

   just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud

   2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024

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   Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.

   2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50

plural pies

1. obsoleteMagpie.

   Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.

   1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 174

plural pies

1. historicalA former low-denomination coin of northern India.

   I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117

plural pies

1. abbreviationellipsisbiologyEllipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).

plural pies

1. historicalA traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

   Synonyms: foot

1. alternativeletterpress typographyAlternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”).

present singular third person pies · participle present pieing · participle past pied · past pied

1. alternativetransitiveAlternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).

   The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

   1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain

1. abbreviationinitialismusuallyanthropologyInitialism of Proto-Indo-European.

   The Greek and Sanskrit languages (along with many other languages of ancient Eurasia) evince correspondences explained by their descent from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

   2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 5

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableusuallyanthropologyInitialism of Proto-Indo-European.

plural PIEs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of public-interest entity.

1. SingaporeabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Pan Island Expressway.

1. abbreviationhistoricalinitialismInitialism of Paedophile Information Exchange.