pizza dish

noun

A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.

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Meanings

nounpizza dish (plural pizza dishes)

plural pizza dishes

  1. informalcommunicationsA Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
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    True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.

    2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet)

Origin

From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza.

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“pizza dish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pizza%20dish. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pizza dish,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pizza%20dish.

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