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deep-dish

deep-dish adjective: of a pie or pizza: baked in a dish or pan with high sides.

Adjective

deep-dish (not comparable)

  1. Of a pie or pizza: baked in a dish or pan with high sides.
  2. (informal) Very thorough or intricate.
    • The best gossip on Broadway these days is nothing you can read in the tabloids. You'll have to hear it in person, and believe me, you'll want to. This is very deep dish — layered with malice and kindness, truth and conjecture, and all the mixed motives that make human beings such endlessly...2014 April 21, Ben Brantley, “Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Revival of 'The Cripple of Inishmaan'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

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Questions about deep-dish

What does deep-dish mean?
Deep-dish means of a pie or pizza: baked in a dish or pan with high sides.
What part of speech is deep-dish?
Deep-dish is an adjective.

Words near deep-dish in the dictionary

  1. deep-browed
  2. deep-copied
  3. deep-copies
  4. deep-copy
  5. deep-copying
  6. deep-dish
  7. deep-dish pizza
  8. deep-dish pizzas
  9. deep-dive
  10. deep-dived
  11. deep-dives

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