pizza puff

noun

A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a pizza, such as cheese, pizza sauce, sausage, and pepperoni, and usually deep-fried.

Meanings

nounpizza puff (plural pizza puffs)

plural pizza puffs

  1. A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a pizza, such as cheese, pizza sauce, sausage, and pepperoni, and usually deep-fried.

    That he'd never had a pizza puff did not deter him. His approach at lunch, as it was elsewhere, was straight ahead.

    2006, Andy Nash, Through the Lens of Social Justice
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    Today I was eating a pizza puff with crinkle-fries and a vanilla shake, so diarrhea was pretty much a definite for me.

    2004, Joe Meno, Hairstyles of the Damned, page 68

    Rick tells them about various diners (he is an expert on local grubby diners), and which ones make you need a bathroom the soonest, which ones you should only order a pizza puff from […]

    2016, Adam Selzer, Just Kill Me, page 121

Origin

From pizza + puff, trademarked in some regions, including by the Illinois Tamale Company in the United States.

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APA

pizza puff. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pizza%20puff

MLA

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

Chicago

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