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apple-pie

apple-pie is the alternative spelling of apple pie.

Meaning of apple pie

Noun

apple pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple pies)

  1. A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
    • The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.2011 April 12, Beth Kendrick, chapter 29, in The Bake-Off, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN
  2. (figuratively) Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
    • […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10
  3. (UK, dialectal) Any of various willowherbs.

See all 4 meanings of apple pie

Forms of apple-pie

Noun
pluralapple-pies
Verb
third-person singular presentapple-pies
present participleapple-pieing
past participleapple-pied
pastapple-pied

Phrases with apple-pie

Questions about apple-pie

What is apple-pie the alternative spelling of?
Apple-pie is the alternative spelling of apple pie.

Words near apple-pie in the dictionary

  1. apple-like
  2. apple-monger
  3. apple-mongers
  4. apple-mush
  5. apple-of-Peru
  6. apple-pie
  7. apple-pie bed
  8. apple-pie beds
  9. apple-pie order
  10. apple-pied
  11. apple-pieing

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