pieman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a man who makes or sells pies, especially a street vendor

   The pieman carried a tray of hot pies through the market.

2. 2
   noun

   historically, the person who called heads or tails in a street coin-tossing game

   The pieman took the stakes and called the toss.

From Middle English pyman, a compound of pie and man. Pie sellers sometimes ran street coin-tossing games as a sideline, which produced the historical gambling sense.

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