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American pie

American pie adjective: having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.

Adjective

American pie (comparative more American pie, superlative most American pie)

  1. Having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
    • The prostitute's dream is the most upward mobile, middle class, American pie dream of all.1976, Francine Hardaway, Creative Rhetoric, page 14

Forms of American pie

comparativemore American pie
superlativemost American pie

Origin of American pie

Apparently shortened from the simile American as apple pie.

Questions about American pie

What does American pie mean?
American pie means having the attributes associated uniquely or primarily with Americans.
What part of speech is American pie?
American pie is an adjective.

Words near American pie in the dictionary

  1. American pennyroyal
  2. American pennyroyals
  3. American perch
  4. American perches
  5. American persimmon
  6. American pie
  7. American pipit
  8. American pipits
  9. American plan
  10. American planetree
  11. American planetrees

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