Pie Definition–noun | 1. | a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped wi
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th a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie. | | 2. | a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie. | | 3. | a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie. | | 4. | an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too. | —Idioms | 6. | easy as pie, extremely easy or simple. | | 7. | nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie. | | 8. | pie in the sky, | a. | the illusory prospect of future benefits: Political promises are often pie in the sky. | | b. | a state of perfect happiness; utopia: to promise pie in the sky. | | |
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