/ paɪ; NAmE / noun [ C , U ]
1.
fruit baked in a dish with pastry on the bottom, sides and top :
a slice of apple pie
Help yourself to some more pie.
a pie dish
2.
( especially BrE ) meat, vegetables, etc. baked in a dish with pastry on the bottom, sides and top :
a steak and kidney pie
—see also mince pie , pork pie , shepherd's pie
—see also custard pie
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IDIOMS
- a piece / slice / share of the pie
- pie in the sky
—more at American adjective , easy adjective , eat , finger noun , nice
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WORD ORIGIN
Middle English : probably the same word as pie , used in the naming of birds; the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.