Definition of "pie" []

• A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust. (noun)
• A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling. (noun)
• A whole that can be shared: "That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar” ( New York Times). (noun)
• Pie in the sky An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits . . . is pie in the sky” ( Howard H. Baker, Jr.) (idiom)
• See magpie. (noun)

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• "The only way to make sure both the poor and rich have enough, is not to quibble over how to divide the pie, but to * bake more pie*."
• ""But I wouldn't take his word for a thing if I knew it was so; I went on a still-hunt around that tent on my own hook, and I found a pie -- a _whole pie_, by golly!"
• "The pie is one that should have a very wide appeal, with the look and flavor of a snickerdoodle in pie form."