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meat pie

meat pie noun: a pie containing meat.

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.
    • If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418
  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

Examples of meat pie in a sentence

  • She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
  • In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:
  • Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:
  • Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other.2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:

Forms of meat pie

pluralmeat pies
alternative formmeat-pie
alternative formmeatpie

Words formed from meat pie

Questions about meat pie

What does meat pie mean?
Meat pie means a pie containing meat.
How do you use meat pie in a sentence?
She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.
What part of speech is meat pie?
Meat pie is a noun.
What is the plural of meat pie?
The plural of meat pie is meat pies.

Words near meat pie in the dictionary

  1. meat offerings
  2. meat on one's bones
  3. meat on the bones
  4. meat pad
  5. meat pads
  6. meat pie
  7. meat pies
  8. meat puppet
  9. meat puppets
  10. meat rack
  11. meat racks

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