Definition of "pieing" [pieing]

• Present participle of pie. (verb)
• An instance of throwing a pie at someone, most prominently a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest. (noun)

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• "Burnett made "pieing" a verb, greeting each teammate to come through in New York's last at-bat -- the Yankees led the majors with 51 comeback victories and 15 walkoff wins -- with a whipped-cream pie in the face."
• "PETA took a classic move straight from a slapstick comedy by "pieing" Minister Gail Shea of Canadian Fisheries and Oceans during her speech in Ontario."
• "Gutenberg; but his invention abolished at one stroke composition and distribution; introduced for the first time the line, instead of the letter, as the unit of composition; brought into the art the idea of automatically and instantly producing by a keyboard solid lines of composed and justified type, to be once used and then melted down; rendered it possible to secure for each issue new and sharp faces; abolished the usual investment for type; cheapened the cost of standing matter; removed all danger of "pieing," and at the same time reduced greatly the cost of composition."