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apple pies

apple pies is the plural 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.

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Questions about apple pies

What is apple pies the plural of?
Apple pies is the plural of apple pie.

Words near apple pies in the dictionary

  1. apple pear
  2. apple pears
  3. apple pie
  4. apple pied
  5. apple pieing
  6. apple pies
  7. apple pip
  8. apple pips
  9. apple polisher
  10. apple polishers
  11. apple red

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