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Pies

/paɪz/

To spill or mix printing type.

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📖 Definitions of "Pies"

verb

1
To spill or mix printing type.

noun

1
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
"The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert."
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
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

verb

1
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
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3
(of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

noun

1
Magpie.

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