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Piegate

Piegate proper noun: the 2017 controversy over English footballer Wayne Shaw eating a pasty during a match, knowing that a betting company was offering 8–1 odds against him eating a pie on television.

Proper noun

Piegate

  1. (informal) The 2017 controversy over English footballer Wayne Shaw eating a pasty during a match, knowing that a betting company was offering 8–1 odds against him eating a pie on television.

Origin of Piegate

pie + -gate

Questions about Piegate

What does Piegate mean?
Piegate means the 2017 controversy over English footballer Wayne Shaw eating a pasty during a match, knowing that a betting company was offering 8–1 odds against him eating a pie on television.
What part of speech is Piegate?
Piegate is a proper noun.

Words near Piegate in the dictionary

  1. piefights
  2. piefort
  3. pieforts
  4. Piegan
  5. Piegans
  6. Piegate
  7. Piehl
  8. Piehls
  9. piehole
  10. pieholes
  11. piehouse

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