pie

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A pie chart.

   Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.

   Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).