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Hawaiian pizza

Hawaiian pizza noun: a pizza topped with tomato sauce, cheese, pineapple, and back bacon or ham.

hawaiian pizza: a pizza topped with tomato sauce, cheese, pineapple, and back bacon or ham
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Noun

Hawaiian pizza (countable and uncountable, plural Hawaiian pizzas)

  1. A pizza topped with tomato sauce, cheese, pineapple, and back bacon or ham.

Forms of Hawaiian pizza

pluralHawaiian pizzas

Origin of Hawaiian pizza

Invented by Greek-Canadian chef Sam Panopoulos in 1962, said to have been named Hawaiian after the brand of canned pineapple he was using at the time or because the flavours were reminiscent of Hawaii. Compare toast Hawaii, another dish made with ham, pineapple, and cheese, invented in Germany in 1955.

Questions about Hawaiian pizza

What does Hawaiian pizza mean?
Hawaiian pizza means a pizza topped with tomato sauce, cheese, pineapple, and back bacon or ham.
What part of speech is Hawaiian pizza?
Hawaiian pizza is a noun.
What is the plural of Hawaiian pizza?
The plural of Hawaiian pizza is Hawaiian pizzas.

Words near Hawaiian pizza in the dictionary

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  2. Hawaiian monk seals
  3. Hawaiian peridot
  4. Hawaiian peridots
  5. Hawaiian Pidgin
  6. Hawaiian pizza
  7. Hawaiian pizzas
  8. Hawaiian roll
  9. Hawaiian rolls
  10. Hawaiian seahorse
  11. Hawaiian seahorses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hawaiian pizza (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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