pie

Noun (1)

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
   • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
   • SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
     TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
     Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
     Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
   • Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
3. (Northeastern, US) A pizza.
4. A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
5. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
   • It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek

   Synonyms:

   cake

6. An especially badly bowled ball.
7. A pie chart.
   • Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8
8. (informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
   • Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91
9. (slang) The vulva.
   • "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box
   • Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238
10. (slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
    • Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase
    • My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly[1998 October 18, “Ebonics”performed by Big L

Verb

pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)

1. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
   • I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
2. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3. (UK, often, slang, transitive) To ignore (someone).
   • Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up....2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50
   • just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2024

Noun (2)

pie (plural pies)

1. (obsolete) Magpie.
   • Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and...

Noun (3)

pie (plural pie or pies)

1. (historical) A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
   • I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117

Noun (4)

pie (plural pies)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

   Synonyms:

   foot

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PIE

IPA/piː.aɪ.iː/

PIE

1. (abbreviation, initialism, usually) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
   • The Greek and Sanskrit languages (along with many other languages of ancient Eurasia) evince correspondences explained by their descent from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European (PIE).2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 5

Adjective capitalized: PIE

IPA/piː.aɪ.iː/

PIE (not comparable)

1. (abbreviation, initialism, usually) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.

Noun (5) capitalized: PIE

IPA/piː.aɪ.iː/

PIE (plural PIEs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of public-interest entity.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: PIE

IPA/piː.aɪ.iː/

PIE

1. (Singapore, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Pan Island Expressway.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: PIE

IPA/piː.aɪ.iː/

PIE

1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Paedophile Information Exchange.