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meat-pie

meat-pie is the alternative form of meat pie.

Meaning of meat pie

Noun

meat pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat pies)

  1. (non-idiomatic usage) A pie containing meat.
    • My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
    • (a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry.
    • (b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119

Forms of meat-pie

pluralmeat-pies

Questions about meat-pie

What is meat-pie the alternative form of?
Meat-pie is the alternative form of meat pie.

Words near meat-pie in the dictionary

  1. meat-eater
  2. meat-eaters
  3. meat-eating
  4. meat-fork
  5. meat-forks
  6. meat-pie
  7. meat-pies
  8. meat-safe
  9. meat-safe cot
  10. meat-safe cots
  11. meat-safes

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