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MEAT PIE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough

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Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("meat pie" is a kind of...):

pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meat pie"):

pasty (small meat pie or turnover)

tourtiere (a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec)

shepherd's pie (pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven)

steak and kidney pie (steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked)

kidney pie (like steak and kidney pie but without steak)

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